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

Life and art are not two different things.

- 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

The essence of beauty is unity in variety.

- 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

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

- 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