Logo
Quote by Claude Debussy
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the nake

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. – Claude Debussy

Other quotes by Claude Debussy

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. – Claude Debussy

Category:
Beauty
Author
Claude Debussy
Read Quote

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. – Claude Debussy

Category:
Music
Author
Claude Debussy
Read Quote

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. – Claude Debussy

Category:
Art
Author
Claude Debussy
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Emotions
category

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. – Max Eastman

Category:
Emotions

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. – Thomas Henry Huxley

Category:
Emotions

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? – Vincent Van Gogh

Category:
Emotions

Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. – William James

Category:
Emotions

Random Quotes

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. – Mark Twain

Category:
Kindness

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christs vineyard. – Pope John Paul II

Category:
History

I think feminisms a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. Theres nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybodys confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing. – Zosia Mamet

Category:
dating

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met. – Samuel Wilson

Category:
environmental