Architecture Quote by Kenneth Clark

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

— Jake Heggie

Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically, socially during…

— Jacob Hashimoto

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

— Phyllida Lloyd

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's…

— Rufus Wainwright

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed…

— Luciano Pavarotti

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

— Renee Fleming

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're…

— Charles Nelson Reilly

Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life.

— Mark Getty

I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an…

— Kaija Saariaho

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

— Carlisle Floyd

Opera can be exceptionally moving but can also be pompous.

— Matt Bellamy

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

— Karen Black