Top 31 Quotes About Clara Schumann
#1. Love of bustle is not industry.
Seneca.
#2. My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
Clara Schumann
#3. Every psychiatrist hated the irony that the best-paying specialty was cosmetic surgery, as if you could fix your psyche by changing your face.
Lisa Scottoline
#4. I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.
John Hickenlooper
#5. I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose - there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?
Clara Schumann
#6. I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.
Clara Schumann
#7. If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.
Clara Schumann
#9. How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire.
Clara Schumann
#10. For a moment it seemed as if he was going to lose his temper too. His strange, pale eyes all but glared at Sophie. But he controlled himself and said, Now trot along indoors, you overactive old thing, and find something else to play with before I get angry. I hate getting angry.
Diana Wynne Jones
#11. He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.
(on Liszt)
Clara Schumann
#12. Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.
Clara Schumann
#14. To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions" -Agatha Swanburne
Maryrose Wood
#15. Don't let them wait for so long, sometimes all confusions just need a warm hug.
Anuj Tiwari
#16. Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!
Clara Schumann
#17. - and there, on the table under her bedroom window, lies the voice that has set her dreaming again. Fragments of a life lived a long, long time ago. Across a hundred years the woman's voice speaks to her - so clearly that she cannot believe it is not possible to pick up her pen and answer.
Ahdaf Soueif
#18. My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Clara Schumann
#19. The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.
Theodore Roosevelt
#21. Composing gives me great pleasure ... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.
Clara Schumann
#22. There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
Clara Schumann
#23. I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.
Clara Schumann
#24. I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.
Clara Schumann
#25. I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
Clara Schumann
#26. The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.
Clara Schumann
#27. I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.
Clara Schumann
#29. Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
Clara Schumann
#30. You appear in the Novelletten in every possible circumstance, in every irresistible form ... They could only be written by one who knows such eyes as yours and has touched such lips as yours.
Clara Schumann
#31. Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.
Kirstie Alley
