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Claude Debussy [1862-1918] French

Rank: 101
Composer (with music)
Impressionist

Achille-Claude Debussy, known since the 1890s as Claude-Achille Debussy or Claude Debussy, was a French composer. He and Maurice Ravel were the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music, though Debussy disliked the term when applied to his compositions.

Art, Music, Beauty, Hope, Nature, Sad

Quote	Tags	Rank
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.		101
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.	Nature	102
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.	Art	103
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.	Music	104
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.	Art	105
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.	Music	106
Extreme complication is contrary to art.	Art	107
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.		108
The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.	Hope	109
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.	Music	110
In opera, there is always too much singing.		111
Music is the silence between the notes.		112
I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.		113
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.		114
First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.		115
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?		116
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.		117
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.	Beauty	118
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.	Sad	119

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