“The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.”
Franz Liszt“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”
Franz Liszt“Truth is a great flirt.”
Franz Liszt“Beware of missing chances otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.”
Franz Liszt“Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.”
Franz Liszt“The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.”
Franz Liszt“The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.”
Franz Liszt“It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.”
Franz Liszt“Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.”
Franz Liszt“Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.”
Franz Liszt“Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.”
Franz Liszt