I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?
I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions. - Clara Schumann
I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.
- Clara Schumann
Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetful… - Clara Schumann
Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetful…
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling? - Clara Schumann
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art. - Clara Schumann
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able … - Clara Schumann
How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able …
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. - Clara Schumann
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it. - Clara Schumann
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me. - Clara Schumann
I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.
You appear in the Novelletten in every possible circumstance, in every irresistible form... They could only be written by one who knows such eyes as … - Clara Schumann
You appear in the Novelletten in every possible circumstance, in every irresistible form... They could only be written by one who knows such eyes as …
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