More from Ludwig van Beethoven

  1. Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
  2. The day-to-day exhausted me!
  3. The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse - it will not submit to th…
  4. Muss es sein? Es muss sein.
  5. Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
  6. Another equally true saying of Schumann is that, compared with Beethoven, Schubert is as a woman to a man. For it must be confessed that on…
  7. There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry aw…
  8. When his friends, says Czerny, speak to him of his youthful renown, he replies: 'Ah, nonsense! I have never thought of writing for renown a…

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