Quotes by Franz Liszt

“Sorrowful and great is the artists destiny.”

“Truth is a great flirt.”

Music is the heart of life. She speaks love; without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

Brahms Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Sorrowful and great is the artists destiny.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christs religion illuminates with His divine light.

Beware of missing chances otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

Truth is a great flirt.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.