Frederic Chopin

"I would like to play over the land of memories, and hear the echo there of beautiful moments."

"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural."

"Great artists suffer for the beauty they create."

"Beauty and truth are one; that is, when a thing is true in the highest sense, it is beautiful."

"Patience is the art of hope."

"I have played in front of sovereigns and crowds, yet my truest audience is the piano itself."

"The most beautiful things cannot be said; they must be felt."

"Art should be the pursuit of the true, the good, and the beautiful."

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to haunt your footsteps later."

"I am dying by inches, from such a sad life."

"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."

"The earth is a mud, the sky is a mud, and I myself am a mud."

"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness."

"The most beautiful phrases do not always contain the greatest sense."

"I love to see talented people suffer for their art."

"Happiness is a choice, not a destination."

"I want nothing to do with a friend who surprises me with deeds."

"When all else is lost, music remains."

"The beautiful is as useful as the useful. Perhaps more so."

"I believe in the power of the human spirit to overcome all obstacles."

"Nature speaks to those who listen with their hearts."

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

"Talent is nothing without passion, and passion is nothing without discipline."

"I seek in music the beautiful, the true, and the eternal."

"Life is a garden where your thoughts are seeds."

"My compositions are the consolations of my heart."

"The piano is my voice; through it I speak my soul."

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

"Every note must sing like the human voice."