10 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes on Creativity

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart quotes on creativity

18. When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.

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

41. Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible. ~ Allan Bloom

42. Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. ~ Roy Blount, Jr.

48. Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness. ~ Aaron Copland

50. Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for a stranger was his own. ~ Will and Ariel Durant

65. Mozart said profound things and at the same time remained flippant and lively. ~ Michael Kennedy

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

75. Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece. ~ Camille Saint-Saens

90. Mozart's mental grip never loosens; he never abandons himself to any one sense; even at his most ecstatic moments his mind is vigorous, alert, and on the wing. He dives unerringly on to his finest ideas like a bird of prey, and once an idea is seized he soars off again with an undiminished power. ~ Walter J. Turner