The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence. Claude Debussy More Quotes by Claude Debussy More Quotes From Claude Debussy Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. Claude Debussy medicine effort philosophy How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. Claude Debussy naked sexy feelings If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing. Claude Debussy no-reason music reason Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. Claude Debussy law wish people The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. Claude Debussy iron soul dream There is nothing more musical than a sunset. Claude Debussy sunrise sunset musical There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law. Claude Debussy pleasure theory law Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront. Claude Debussy affront strikes people The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen. Claude Debussy circus crowds dangerous Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles! Claude Debussy ubiquity common-sense idols People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds. Claude Debussy mind beautiful people 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. Claude Debussy hope beautiful art Life is the space between our things. Claude Debussy space-between space life-is I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child. Claude Debussy vision wish children Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is. Claude Debussy variation light writing Extreme complication is contrary to art. Claude Debussy complication extremes art I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns. Claude Debussy horror saint names If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered. Claude Debussy religious yesterday feelings He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting. Claude Debussy music silence clouds The century of airplanes has a right to its own music. Claude Debussy airplane century
