Wilhelm Richard Wagner, 1813 - 1883
Born: 22 May 1813, Leipzig, Germany
Died: 13 February 1883, Ca' Vendramin Calergi, Venice, Kingdom of Italy
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- Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. permalink
Richard Wagner - After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? permalink
Richard Wagner - Artistic Man can only fully content himself by uniting every branch of Art into the common Artwork: in every segregation of his artistic faculties he is unfree, not fully that which he has power to be; whereas in the common Artwork he is free, and fully that which he has power to be. permalink
Richard Wagner - The Art-Work of the Future (1849) - Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted. permalink
Richard Wagner - Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge. permalink
Richard Wagner - I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired. permalink
Richard Wagner - I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. permalink
Richard Wagner - I am writing Parsifal only for my wife — if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say. permalink
Richard Wagner - (2 December 1877, as recorded by his daughter Cosima) - I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; — I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; — I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men; — I believe that he who once has bathed in the sublime delights of this high Art, is consecrate to Her for ever, and never can deny Her; — I believe that through Art all men are saved. permalink
Richard Wagner - I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts — the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. permalink
Richard Wagner - I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal. permalink
Richard Wagner - I wish I could score everything for horns. permalink
Richard Wagner - I write music with an exclamation point! permalink
Richard Wagner - Imagination creates reality. permalink
Richard Wagner - In order to see the Performer and the Poet take natural rise, we must first imagine to ourselves the artistic Fellowship of the future; and that according to no arbitrary canon, but following the logical course which we are bound to take in drawing from the Art-work itself our conclusions as to those artistic organs which alone can call it into natural life. permalink
Richard Wagner - The Art-Work of the Future (1849)
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