Robert Schumann Quotes

When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.

We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.

I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.