Pablo Casals Quotes about Art

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The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour, to give wings of eternity to that which is

The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.

Pablo Casals

Spiritual, Art, Wings

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Pablo Casals

Art, Play, Interpretation

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The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

Pablo Casals

Art, Paper, Tempo

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

Pablo Casals

Art, Perfect, Political

Quoted in Julian Lloyd Webber The Song of the Birds (1985).

I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.

Pablo Casals

Art, Work, Dedication

I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.

Pablo Casals

Art, Taken, Spirit