I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.

- 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 …

- 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

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

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 imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

- Clara Schumann

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

- 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 …

- Clara Schumann

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

- Clara Schumann