Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

- 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…

- 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

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 nothing more musical than a sunset.

- Claude Debussy

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

- 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.

- Claude Debussy

Music is the space between the notes.

- Claude Debussy

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

- Claude Debussy