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Claude Debussy

"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."

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"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."

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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

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"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."

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"Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life."

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"The devil does not stay where music is."

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"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

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"There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite... a play of Shakespeare's."

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"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

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"The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them."

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"I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child."
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"Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes."
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"The century of airplanes has a right to its own music."
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"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
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"Extreme complication is contrary to art."
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"Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory."
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"Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law."
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"There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature."
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"People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?"
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"I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it."
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