“In the freezing darkness, the voices and the music alone wrapped the audience in beauty, emotion, and fantasy. The singing soothed, stirred, and seduced until you were madly in love, and became addicted. That was opera in its purest, most sincere form.”
Source: Life In Opera: Truth, Tempo and Soul: Encounters with Stars, Innovators and Leaders of Today's Opera World
“Do you ever feel like we are the universe’s date to a pig party?
Love,
The Human Race”
“In a prior age, the human experience was understood as the temporal embodiment of desire, delight, fear, grief, faith, love, hope, hatred, horror, sympathy, gentleness, kindness, loyalty, fidelity, sublimity, desperation, chagrin, anger, fury, wrath, distress, discomposure, shame, dignity, indignity, glory, contempt, slight, heartbreak, fondness, tenderness, adoration, infatuation, compassion, goodwill, worship, sorrow, anguish, despair, woe, dejection, despondency, duty, angst, reverence, respect, esteem, exaltation, melancholy, disquiet, weariness, felicity, glee, bliss, ecstasy, rapture, euphoria, exhilaration, rhapsody, brotherhood, contemplation, mediation, surrender, fancy, impulse, yearning, thirst, hankering, pining, enthusiasm, need, obligation, fancy, mystery, helplessness, luck, recklessness, boldness, fearlessness, wildness, sorrow, regret, gloom, heavyheartedness, and dreaminess and ten thousand others. These are the sentiments which great art compels us to feel. But mediocre art truncates the human experience. It prunes and lops off all the diversity and richness of life and leaves us with little more than lust, amusement, self-fulfillment, and the resentment which comes from our endless search for the power that now attends victimhood.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Even if I am broken into many pieces, I know you can still make me a piece of art in another form; every scar will become an etching that tells a unique story”
“Any artist is a universal being. Artist is beyond every defined boundary.”
“We are visitors,
Busy in claiming it ours—
In museum of art.”
Source: Cherry Blossoms: A Haiku Poetry Book
“Making art is like having a conversation. I like to speak simply. I like to speak the truth.”
“If you can’t paint a rat in one stroke, are you even speaking art?”
Source: Quote: +/-
“As the men of the age were not accustomed to see any excellence or greater perfection than the things thus produced, they greatly admired them, and considered them to be the type of perfection, barbarous as they were. Yet some rising spirits, aided by some quality in the air of certain places, so far purged themselves of this crude style”
Source: [(The Lives of the Artists )] [Author: Giorgio Vasari] [Dec-2008]
“All cultural artifacts can be parsed out into three categories: uncommon things, common things, and mediocre things. Mediocre things do not last very long, common things last a lifetime, and uncommon things last indefinitely.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity