Quotes from Clara Schumann


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    There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

    Joy | Listening | Oneself


    Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

    Beauty | Beautiful | Enjoy


    I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

    Valentine's Day


    My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

    Health | Life | Calling


    My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

    Art | Happiness | Picture


    I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

    Life | Work | Art


    I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

    Everybody | Cannot | Fond


    If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

    Joy | Youth | Trouble


    Is an artist much more than a beggar?

    Artist | Beggar


    The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

    Tea | Grow | Room


    Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

    Art | Treasures | Longer


    Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

    Faults | Allow


    I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

    Fear | Memory | Fail


       

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