The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.
“Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.”
“Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.”
“He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.”
“What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.”
“All great men are partially inspired.”
“A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.”
“Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.”
“A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.”
“As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.”