Quotes by : Claude Debussy

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

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is....

Music is the silence between the notes.

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because....

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful....

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.....

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle....

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate....