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But Lortat, I'm not in the habit of attracting crowds.

— Gabriel Fauré

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Consoling a disappointed Robert Lortat in June 1914 after the pianist had given a sparsely attended recital of Fauré's work, as quoted in Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life (2005) by Jean-Michel Nectoux and Roger Nichols, pp. 388-389

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To know an art really well, one must know everything about it, both its origins and its development.

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For me art and music especially consists of raising ourselves as high as possible above that which is.

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Imagining is trying to formulate all one would wish to be better, all that surpasses reality.

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Only it cannot be done any faster.

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And I always enjoy seeing sunlight play on the rocks, the water, the trees and plains. What variety of effects, what brilliance and what softness... I wish my music could show as much diversity.

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