Claude Debussy: “Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”
Leonard Bernstein: “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
Igor Stravinsky: “Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”
Edward Elgar: “I always said God was against art and I still believe it.”
Johannes Brahms: “Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”
J.S. Bach: “I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.”
Robert Schumann: “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”
John Cage: “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
Richard Wagner: “Imagination creates reality.”
Dmitri Shostakovich: “A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.”