Quotes by Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy

Anyone who calls my music “impressionist” is an imbecile.

Imbeciles

Impressionists

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.

Art

Beautiful

Hope

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

Affront

People

Strikes

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.

Light

Variation

Writing

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Art

Complication

Extremes

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

Firsts

Gentleman

Singers

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.

Clouds

Music

Silence

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

Feelings

Naked

Sexy

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

Color

Essence

Form

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

Children

Vision

Wish

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Quotes by Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy

Anyone who calls my music “impressionist” is an imbecile.

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.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

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.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

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.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

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