Art Quote by Richard Wagner

All art constantly aspires to the condition of music…In its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from…

— Walter Pater

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

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music, because, in its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the…

— Walter H Pater

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching…

— John Eaton

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

— Diane Paulus

Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices.…

— Karen DeCrow

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

— Slavoj Žižek

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

— Sarah Caldwell

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

— Sarah Caldwell

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice…

— Junichiro Koizumi

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

— Carlisle Floyd

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

— Alexander McCall Smith