Quotes About Art

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.

I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that.

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.

I became a set designer for opera.

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

I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.

I don't know if I would write an opera, maybe because of the words. But yes, I would be really excited to do it. I would certainly write a ballet or... I've done a lot of stage before.

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 in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Music and opera are a big part of my life.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.