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Ferenc Liszt Hungarian. Liszt Ferenc; - - Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, publicist. Quotes [edit] without imagination there is no art, as there is no science. In the field of improvisation, music belongs to the gypsies, more than anyone else, without them it will not have the strength to exist. Brahms variations are better than mine, but mine were written before him.

Inspiration is enough to give an expression tone in singing, especially when a song without words. The highest calm is still the ideal of great art. Forms and transient forms of life are just stages to this ideal that the religion of Christ illuminates with His Divine Light. A genius rarely triumphs without a struggle, he paves his way, overcoming thousands of obstacles, they do not recognize him for a long time, he is violently attacked, finally, half of his contemporaries often simply denies his existence.

The main task of the conductor is not to put himself in the certificate, but to disappear behind his functions to the maximum possible degree. Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and Vera alone can transform this suicide as a sacrifice. Truth is a large coquette. How the mother teaches her children how to express herself in her own language, so one gypsy musician teaches another.

They never showed the need for notation. Music embodies a feeling in itself, without forcing it to affirm and mix with the thought, as it is forced in most arts and, especially in the art of the word. It is impossible to imagine a more complete merger with nature than that of the gypsies.

Beware of losing the opportunity, otherwise one day it may be too late. The fate of the artist is sad and still great. The theater receives recognition through its initiative, which is necessary for first -class execution. A person of any mental quality has his own ideas. This is common sense. The wide ways are open to all efforts, and sympathetic recognition is provided to everyone who devotes their art for the liturgical conviction of consciousness.

This is my ardent desire and my greatest ambition to leave work with several useful instructions for pianists after me. The quotes about the sheet [edit] the sheet heard my opera, he correctly felt all the wonderful places. Despite the many shortcomings of Ruslan, he reassured me about success. Not only in St. Petersburg, but also in Paris, according to him, my opera, having stood only 32 performances within one winter, could be considered successful.

I expressed him frankly my views on art and composers. In my opinion, Karl-Maria Weber was very unsatisfactory for me even in Freyshtz from excessive use of the dominant-septim of the chord in its first position.