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.
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...
I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.
It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?
Taste is the common sense of genius.
I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
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