Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Meaning of the quote
Art is the most beautiful of all lies. This means that even though art may not always show the complete truth, it is still beautiful and valuable. The artist can use their imagination to create something new and captivating, even if it's not entirely real. This is what makes art so special and meaningful.
More quotes from Claude Debussy
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
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Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
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The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.
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I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.
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Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
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Extreme complication is contrary to art.
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First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
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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.
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People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
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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.
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Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.
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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.
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A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
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Music is the silence between the notes.
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The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
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In opera, there is always too much singing.
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Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
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