Author: Claude Debussy

Quotes

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

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

- Claude Debussy

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

- Claude Debussy

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

- Claude Debussy

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

- Claude Debussy

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

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

- Claude Debussy

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.

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

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

- Claude Debussy

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

- Claude Debussy

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

- Claude Debussy

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