Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Claude DebussyRead
Art is the most beautiful deception of all!
Interpretation
Art presents illusions that are profoundly beautiful, captivating our senses and emotions.
Claude Debussy's quote highlights the enchanting nature of art, suggesting that it is a crafted illusion that captivates and delights. By referring to art as a 'deception,' Debussy implies that art transforms reality into something more beautiful, allowing us to experience life through a more vivid and imaginative lens.
In practice
During a gallery opening, one might say this quote to highlight the transformative power of the displayed paintings.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
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.
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.
If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.
To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
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