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.
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. - Claude Debussy
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
- Claude Debussy
The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly, without our wishing it… - Claude Debussy
The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly, without our wishing it…
There is nothing more musical than a sunset. - Claude Debussy
There is nothing more musical than a sunset.
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 some… - Claude Debussy
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 some…
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
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.
Music is the space between the notes. - Claude Debussy
Music is the space between the notes.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. - Claude Debussy
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy
Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.
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 trad… - Claude Debussy
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 trad…
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