Ludwig van Beethoven World Quotations

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, - ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt called upon to produce.

Music can change the world.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

There ought to be only 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 tradesman.