George Sand quotes - page 3

In the stormy days of our youth, we imagine that solitude is a sure refuge from the assaults of life, a certain balm for the wounds of battle. This is a serious mistake, and experience teaches us that, if we cannot live in peace with our fellow-men, neither romantic raptures nor aesthetic enjoyment will ever fill the abyss gaping at the bottom of our hearts. (George Sand)
The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.
George Sand
Life is a long ache which rarely sleeps and can never be cured.
George Sand
Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.
George Sand
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
George Sand
Ah that Senate is a world of ice and darkness It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing for its members themselves are moribund.
George Sand
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.
George Sand
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
George Sand
I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.
George Sand
His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds. His composition of that night was surely filled with raindrops, resounding clearly on the tiles of the Charterhouse, but it had been transformed in his imagination and in his song into tears falling upon his heart from the sky.
George Sand
He would spend six weeks on one page, only to end up writing it just as he had traced it in his first outpouring. (George Sand)
It was there he composed these most beautiful of short pages which he modestly entitled the Preludes. They are masterpieces.
George Sand
His creation was spontaneous, miraculous. He found it without searching for it, without foreseeing it. It came to his piano suddenly, complete, sublime, or it sang in his head during a walk, and he would hasten to hear it again by, tossing it off on his instrument. But then would begin the most heartbreaking labor I have ever witnessed.
George Sand
Which of us has not some sorrow to dull, or some yoke to cast off?
George Sand
He made a single instrument speak a language of infinity. He could often sum up, in ten lines that a child could play, poems of a boundless exaltation, dramas of unequalled power.
George Sand