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.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events....

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

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....