Quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”

“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”

“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.”

“Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!”

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

“Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.”

“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”

“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 p...”

“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”

“I like your opera - I think I will set it to music”

“Beethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.”

“One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.”

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”

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

“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is”

“Beethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.”

“I want to seize fate by the throat.”

“There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a trades...”

“...thus do I take my farewell of thee — and indeed sadly — yes that beloved hope — which I brought with me when I came here to be cured at least in a degree — I must wholly abandon, as the leaves o...”

“Nur das Reine im Herzen kann eine gute Suppe machen.”