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That will make the ladies scream.
— Joseph Haydn, speaking of the ‘surprise’ in the ‘Surprise’ Symphony No.94; quoted in A Gyrowetz, Memoirs, 1848
I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.
— Joseph Haydn, speaking of his period as Kapellmeister at the Esterhazy court; quoted in J Cuthbert Hadden, Haydn (1934)
Though I had some instruction from Haydn, I never learned anything from him.
— Ludwig van Beethoven, quoted in Marion M Scott, Beethoven, 1934
So far as genius can exist in a man who is merely virtuous, Haydn had it. He went as far as the limits that morality sets to the intellect.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878
Submit your diary entries detailing your wondrous immersion in the World of Art.
“I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.”—Marc Chagall
“Every good painter paints what he is.”—Jackson Pollack
” Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.”—Andy Warhol