Frederic Chopin

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

"Art is the attempt to express the inexpressible."

"I compose my death through my music."

"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful mover."

"The beautiful and the true must be united."

"My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor."

"I exist in a state between life and death, sustained only by my art."

"Grace is what beauty becomes when it is no longer about making you look smart."

"Discipline is the bridge between hope and achievement."

"I must confess that I love money; however, music is my first love."

"The heart knows no laws except the law of love."

"A musician must practice until his fingers remember what his heart feels."

"I am neither a pedant nor a charlatan, but a dreamer."

"Art breathes life into the lifeless."

"The soul speaks in silence; the heart sings in secrets."

"I never wanted to be famous; I only wanted to be felt."

"True beauty lies in the space between the notes."

"I am not a virtuoso; I am a poet of the piano."

"The highest state of musical art is to express the soul."

"Genius is the capacity to receive."

"I compose out of necessity, not from desire."

"Every moment is an opportunity to create beauty."

"I struggle with the machine of the soul."

"The music one listens to with the greatest enthusiasm is the music of one's heart."

"I would rather feel than think."

"My compositions are the language my soul speaks when words fail."

"The greatest beauty emerges from the deepest sorrow."

"I am condemned to write, as I am condemned to live."

"Art is the only true language of the human soul."

"In every silence, there is a song waiting to be heard."