10 Most Beautiful Thoughts by M. K. Čiurlionis on Love, Life, and Music
M. K. Čiurlionis is the most famous Lithuanian painter and composer of all time, whose works are not only widely known but have also become a source of inspiration for many. We would like to share the artist's most beautiful thoughts on life, music, creativity, and love:
1. "Love is a moment that flashes with the splendor of all the suns and stars of the universe."
2. "To be a human being, must you necessarily wear a label stuck to your forehead - that is, be a cobbler, an engineer, a priest, or a musician?"
3. "In the hour of creation, a composer must have only one thought and one desire. If you want to write a good sonata, immerse yourself in it completely."
4. "Music is a messenger from God, sent to stir the gentlest and best strings of our soul, to soothe hearts worn out by life's cares, and to drive out lies, vices, envy, and hatred."
5. "Solitude is my great teacher and friend."
6. "Love is a highway to the sun, paved with sharp diamonds, which you must walk barefoot."
7. "Bachelorhood is a terrible thing. It is simply a shameful, foolish, banal life reduced to nothing. If you wish to be a noble and useful person to your society, then first of all, get married (not immediately, of course)."
8. "Time is a very important poem, played for me by an orchestra. Something is stopping me from listening - I hear nothing. And what a pity, the composition keeps going, and it may soon end. What you fail to hear will be lost forever. That composition is life, and it is played only once."
9. "But you must carry light within yourself, light of your own, so that you may shine in the darkness for all who stand along the way, so that, having seen it, they too may find light within themselves and go on their own path, so that they do not remain standing in darkness."
10. "I would like to compose a symphony from the murmur of waves, from the mysterious speech of a century-old forest, from the twinkling of stars, from our songs, and from my boundless longing."