47 Quotes by Ignacy Jan Paderewski

America, the country of my heart, my second home.

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.

Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.

Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

Music is the only art that actually lives.