Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
- Claude Debussy Quote

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 Quote

Extreme complication is contrary to art.
- Claude Debussy Quote

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
- Claude Debussy Quote

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.
- Claude Debussy Quote

In opera, there is always too much singing.
- Claude Debussy Quote

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
- Claude Debussy Quote

Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy Quote

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.
- Claude Debussy Quote

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.
- Claude Debussy Quote

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
- Claude Debussy Quote

The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
- Claude Debussy Quote

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 Quote