Carl Maria von Weber famous quotes

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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
-- Carl Maria von Weber

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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself, -- it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of colour and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men -- who all feel differently.
-- Carl Maria von Weber

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Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.
-- Carl Maria von Weber

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The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.
-- Carl Maria von Weber

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No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!
-- Carl Maria von Weber

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The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.
-- Carl Maria von Weber

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Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.
-- Carl Maria von Weber

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Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may be situated by itself beyond the sphere of influence of a body cognate with it.

Carl Maria von Weber famous quotes

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