01c. 1798 ADDon’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
02c. 1798 ADMusic is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & PhilosophyLudwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
03c. 1798 ADI would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
04c. 1798 ADThe true artist is not proud, he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal; and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. I would, perhaps, rather come to you and your people, than to many rich folk who display inward poverty.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
05c. 1798 ADMusic is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
07c. 1798 ADAnyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
08c. 1798 ADIt is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
10c. 1798 ADNothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
11c. 1798 ADIf once he has got the right fingering, plays in good time, with the notes fairly correct, then only pull him up about the rendering; and when he has arrived at that stage, don’t let him stop for the sake of small faults, but point them out to him when he has played the piece through. . . I have always adopted this plan; it soon forms musicians which, after all, is one of the first aims of art and it gives less trouble both to master and pupil.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
12c. 1798 ADPlaudite, amici, comedia finita est.(Applaud, my friends, the comedy isLudwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
13c. 1798 ADApplaud my friends, the comedy is over...[on his death bed]Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
14c. 1798 ADWhoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
16c. 1798 ADBeethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
17c. 1798 ADOne must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
18c. 1798 ADThis is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
19c. 1798 ADI joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
20c. 1798 ADMusic is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
21c. 1798 ADTones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
23c. 1798 ADMusic is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
24c. 1798 ADOff with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!Ludwig van Beethoven / quote ↗
