virtuoso quotes

Dire au peintre qu'il faut prendre la nature comme elle est, vaut de dire au virtuose qu'il peut s'asseoir sur le piano. Telling a painter that he must take nature as it is is like telling a virtuoso that he can sit on the piano.

-Mallarme¤  , Ste¤  phane
  Le 'ten o'clock'de M. Whistler.

It takes perhaps a thousand poor musicians to produce one virtuoso.

-VaughanWilliams, Ralph
  In The NewYorkTimes, 5 Dec.

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