Giacomo Puccini Quotes

#1. I lived for art, I lived for love

Giacomo Puccini

#2. I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation!

Giacomo Puccini

#3. Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Giacomo Puccini

#4. Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident ... Is this not form?

Giacomo Puccini

#5. See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!

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#6. What a rush you're in to show me the last dregs of your vile soul!

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#7. The work comes into the world at an undetermined hour, from a still unknown, but it comes inevitably.

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#8. The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

Giacomo Puccini

#9. Even you, o Princess, in your cold room, watch the stars, that tremble with love and with hope. But my secret is hidden within me, my name no one shall know...

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#10. Art is a kind of illness.

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