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Claude Debussy Quotes about Art

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Music is the space between the notes.

Music is the space between the notes.

Claude Debussy
Music, Art, Weekend
"Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving". Book by Jonathan G. Koomey (p. 96), 2001.

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 traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

Claude Debussy
Music, Art, Air

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

Claude Debussy
Art, Musician, Classical Music
"Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought". Book by John Paynter, 1992.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

Claude Debussy
Beautiful, Art, Lying
"The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg, 2001.

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

Claude Debussy
Music, Beauty, Art
"Greatness: Who Makes History and Why". Book by Dean Keith Simonton, May 20, 1994.

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.

Claude Debussy
Beautiful, Hope, Art
"The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg, 2001.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Claude Debussy
Art, Complication, Extremes
"French Music: From the Death of Berlioz to the Death of Fauré". Book by Martin Cooper (p. 136), 1951; later quoted in "Debussy and Wagner", book by Robin Holloway (p. 207), 1979.

What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner, the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.

Claude Debussy
Art, Reality, Trying
"The Lives of the Great Composers". Book by Harold C. Schonberg, 1970.

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