The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
Ludwig van BeethovenArtists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.
Ludwig van BeethovenMen are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
Ludwig van BeethovenBut what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.
Ludwig van Beethoven