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Quote of Claude Debussy - Art is the most beautiful deception...


Biography - Claude Debussy:

French composer.
Born: 1862 - Died: 1918
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.



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Quotes for: art


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Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





My trade and art is to live.





The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.





Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.





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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.











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Claude Debussy also said...


Art is the most beautiful of all lies.





Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity.





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





Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.












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