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What I am trying to do is som...

What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner, the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

Art is the most beautiful dec...

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 75 quotes

When asked by a grumpily puzz...

When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please" and he further claimed that more was to be gained by watching the sun rise than by listening to the Pastoral Symphony. Although such remarks were intended to shock, they contain a core of Debussyan verity.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

Music is in the space between...

Music is in the space between the notes.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

But music, don't you know, is...

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

The music I desire must be su...

The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

There is no theory. You have ...

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

Peter Townsend Music is the s...

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

Beauty seems to strike some p...

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

There is nothing more musical...

There is nothing 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.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

The century of aeroplanes des...

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

Art is the most beautiful dec...

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

If we look at the works of JS...

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 75 quotes

When Claude Debussy studied a...

When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

Collect impressions. Don't be...

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 75 quotes

Music begins where words are ...

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

The age of automobiles and ae...

The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

Is it not our duty to find th...

Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

Inspiration and ideas only co...

Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

There is no theory. You merel...

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Claude Debussy 75 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....