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 remai… - Claude Debussy

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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. … Let us not disillusion anyone by bringing too much reality into the dream.

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About Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer, prominent in the style commonly referred to as Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term.

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Alternative Names: Debussy Claude Achille Debussy Achille Claude Debussy C. Debussy Claude-Achille Debussy Achille-Claude A. Cl. Debussy Achille-Claude Debussy
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Music should humbly seek to please; within these limits great beauty may perhaps be found. 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.

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