Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy - Quotesmemo.com

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Claude Debussy

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

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the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

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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.

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People don't very much like things that are beautiful. . they are so far from their nasty little minds.

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Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!

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I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

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Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served the Centurion because I was his slave," he said, dropping unconsciously into the speech of his own people. "I have served Marcus, and it was not slave-service. . . my stomach will be glad when we start on this hunting trail.

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I think that watching artists, soulful artists, they get into it. It's always the way I perform, so when I'm on stage I just try to get into it - I'm in my own world. That's the whole thing about the stage, it's like a sacred place. They're [the audience] watching into the different world, right, so it's like you see performers and they're in the same room, so it's a different vibe. Sometimes it's great, but I try to separate it, you know, I wanna separate it 'cos otherwise I feel naked. It just feels natural.

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