Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
Claude-Achille Debussywas a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music, though he himself disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in his native France in 1903. Debussy was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed...
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth22 August 1862
art complication extremes
Extreme complication is contrary to art.
art reality trying
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.
beautiful hope art
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.
beauty music art
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
beautiful art lying
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
art musician classical-music
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
music art air
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.
beautiful far nasty people
People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little minds.
airplane victory progress
Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
worship christ united
The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ .
gentleman firsts singers
First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
people deception oblivion
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
music space accents
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.
love inspiring inspiration
Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.