Ignacy Jan Paderewski Professions : Former Prime Minister of Poland Born : November 18, 1860 Died : June 29, 1941 Browse All Authors Top 46 quotes by Ignacy Jan Paderewski Before I was a genius I was a drudge. Ignacy Jan Paderewski genius Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought. Ignacy Jan Paderewski language spiritual world Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless. Ignacy Jan Paderewski invertebrates technique art There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better. Ignacy Jan Paderewski realization satisfaction might America, the country of my heart, my second home. Ignacy Jan Paderewski home heart country It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art? Ignacy Jan Paderewski choices want art Similar Authors Marek Belka former-prime-minister-of-poland Jerzy Buzek former-prime-minister-of-poland Jaroslaw Kaczynski former-prime-minister-of-poland Wojciech Jaruzelski former-prime-minister-of-poland All Authors