22 Quotes by Clara Schumann

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

You appear in the Novelletten in every possible circumstance, in every irresistible form... They could only be written by one who knows such eyes as yours and has touched such lips as yours.

How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire.

I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.