Claude DebussyThinkers

Analysis is always a danger. When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

Claude Debussy is a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.

Finishing is, with a work of art, just like being present at the death of someone you love.

Johann Sebastian Bach is a composer on whose every page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.

Life is the space between our things.

Opera is a form of entertainment where there is always too much singing.

Optics is the geometry of light.