Clara Schumann Quotes

• 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

  Ideas, Creative, Desire

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• Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

  Clara Schumann

  Beauty, Beautiful, Why Not

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• My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

  Clara Schumann

  Art, Imagination, Architecture

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• 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

  Winning, Self, Giving

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• There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

  Clara Schumann

  Joy, Listening, Composing

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• 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

  Art, Wish, Atheism

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• I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.

  Clara Schumann

  Yield, Demand, Conviction

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• 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

  Passion, Artist, Fire

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• I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

  Clara Schumann

  Love, Inspiring, Horse

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• 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

  Life, Health, Giving

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• I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

  Clara Schumann

  Affection

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• Is an artist much more than a beggar?

  Clara Schumann

  Artist, Beggar

  Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Eva Weissweiler, Hildegard Fritsch, Ronald L. Crawford (1994). “The complete correspondence of Clara and Robert Schumann”, Peter Lang Pub Inc

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• If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

  Clara Schumann

  Joy, Youth, Trouble

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• Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

  Clara Schumann

  Art, Treasure

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• 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

  Memories, Play, Agony

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• The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

  Clara Schumann

  Ice, Tea, Rooms

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• 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

  Love, Inspiring, Eye

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