I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.
Clara Schumann

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Clara Schumann

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.
Clara Schumann

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
Clara Schumann

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.
Clara Schumann

Is an artist much more than a beggar?
Clara Schumann

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
Clara Schumann

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!
Clara Schumann