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A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Beautiful Dawn Mistaken Sunset

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Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Art Beautiful Lies Most Most Beautiful

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There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Alas Beautiful Book Development Example Feels Find He Little More Musical Musicians Nature Nothing Read Sees Sunset Than Too Which Who Will

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Music is the silence between the notes.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Between Music Notes Silence

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Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Changing Curves Expression Movement Music Play Waters

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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Arithmetic Geometry Light Music Optics Sounds

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Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Art Make Rules Works

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Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Any Appeal Beauty Effort Enjoyment Immediate Impress Itself Must Our Part Provide Senses Us Without

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Extreme complication is contrary to art.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Art Contrary Extreme

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I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Child Interior Naive Sing Visions Wish I Wish

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Composer

Born: August 22nd, 1862

Died: March 25th, 1918

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