divine-profession-art-everything-else-stale-disgustingly-vacuous-enthralls-even

Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort of art our innermost and carries us from town, from country, from earth, as that it must be truely a blessing of the Gods.

Felix Mendelssohn
0/5 (0)

Felix Mendelssohn's Popular Quotes

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings,…

- Felix Mendelssohn

Pray to God that He might create is us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us.

- Felix Mendelssohn

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.

- Felix Mendelssohn

Life and art are not two different things.

- Felix Mendelssohn

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, count…

- Felix Mendelssohn

The essence of beauty is unity in variety.

- Felix Mendelssohn

The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

- Felix Mendelssohn

I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to on…

- Felix Mendelssohn

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

- Felix Mendelssohn
0 Comments

Login to join the discussion