18 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes on Art

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart quotes on art

6. As I love Mannheim, Mannheim loves me.

24. It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

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30. Mozart exists, and will exist, eternally; divine Mozart - less a name, more a soul descending to us from the heavens, who appeared on this earth, stayed for a little over thirty years, and left it all the more rejuvenated, richer and happier for his appearance.

34. Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.

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40. Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another. ~ Claudio Arrau

44. Together with the puzzle, Mozart gives you the solution. ~ Ferruccio Busoni

52. Mozart is the greatest composer of all. Beethoven created his music, but the music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed. ~ Albert Einstein

56. A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

61. Mozart never did too little and never too much; he always attains but never exceeds his goal. ~ Franz Grillparzer

63. The riddle of Mozart is precisely that 'the man' refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work. ~ Wolfgang Hildesheimer

67. Mozart's music is so beautiful as to entice angels down to earth. ~ Franz Alexander von Kleist

70. Mozart is happiness before it has gotten defined. ~ Arthur Miller

73. Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to do what was beyond him. ~ Romain Rolland

82. Designing an opera by Mozart is like doing something for God - it's a labor of love. ~ Maurice Sendak

83. The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment. ~ Peter Shaffer

85. Mozart's music represents neither the prolonged sigh of faith that characterizes so much of the music written before his time, nor the stormy idealism which cloaks most music after him. Rather he is that mercurial balance of the skeptic and the humane. Like him, and in him, we can always discover new worlds. ~ Joseph Solman

91. Mozart's music is very mysterious. ~ Walter J. Turner

92. The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts. ~ Richard Wagner