71 Quotes by Claude Debussy

Art is of absolutely no use to the masses

Un artiste est par définition un homme habitué au rêve et qui vit parmi des fantômes.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth — an open-air art, boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

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.

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

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.