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.
More Quotes by Claude Debussy
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Extreme complication is contrary to art.
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.
Music is the silence between the notes.
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?