My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. – Clara Schumann
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesnt each person give his life for his calling? – Clara Schumann
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. – Clara Schumann
One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). Its why he found shooting on set boring – because he had already composed the film in his head. – Camille Paglia