Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes

it seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce.…

Wenn ich mich im Zusammenhang des Universums betrachte, was bin ich?

Only the pure in the heart can make a good soup.

May God continue to give you the strength to build your temple of Isis, and may the pure fire there devour all your afflictions so that you may awake like a new phoenix.

Compared to the works of the Supreme Creator, all things are small.

"Ever thine.
Ever mine.
Ever ours." — LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, the Immortal Beloved Letters

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Anyone who tells a lie has not pure heart, and cannot make good soup.

The true artist is not proud, he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal; and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. I would, perhaps, rather come to you and your people, than to many rich folk who display inward poverty.

Musik kann die Welt verändern.

Good Morning, on July 7

My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved I can only live wholly with you or not at all-
Be calm my life, my all. Only by calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
Ever Thine
Ever Mine
Ever Yours

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

I shall seize fate by the throat.