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Pablo Casals Art Quotes - (12 quotes)

Pablo Casals - From the Aging category:

To retire is the beginning of death. (Pablo Casals)

Pablo Casals - From the Aging category:

-at age 95...
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true. (Pablo Casals)

Pablo Casals - From the Creativity category:

I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect - and, yes, wonder - at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter. (Pablo Casals)

Pablo Casals - From the Freedom category:

We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes. (Pablo Casals)

Pablo Casals - From the Immortality category:

We must all work to make this world worthy of its children. (Pablo Casals)

Pablo Casals - From the Importance category:

The truly important things in life – love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness – are constantly being overlooked. (Pablo Casals)

Pablo Casals - From the Music category:

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. (Pablo Casals)

Pablo Casals - From the Teaching category:

What do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? (Pablo Casals)

Pablo Casals - From the Technique category:

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. (Pablo Casals)

Pablo Casals - From the Time category:

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again... (Pablo Casals)

Pablo Casals - From the Uniqueness category:

We should say to each of them [our children]: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? (Pablo Casals)

Pablo Casals - From the Work category:

You must work - we must all work - to make the world worthy of its children. (Pablo Casals)

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