Clara Schumann

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?