"Is an artist much more than a beggar?"

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Source : Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Eva Weissweiler, Hildegard Fritsch, Ronald L. Crawford (1994). “The complete correspondence of Clara and Robert Schumann”, Peter Lang Pub Inc

Clara Schumann

#Artist Quotes #Beggar Quotes

“I can't think of anything when I'm depressed. I just want to be alone.”
“Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.”
“I never liked that ending either. More love streaming out the wrong way, and I don't want to be the kind that says the wrong way. But it doesn't work, these erasures, this constant refolding of the pleats. There were some nice parts, sure, all lemondrop and mellonball, laughing in silk pajamas and the grain of sugar on the toast, love love or whatever, take a number. I'm sorry it's such a lousy story.”
“My nutrition choices are for my health, not to lose weight.”
“We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?”
“Worms are the intestines of the earth.”
“For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.”
“Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.”

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