Giacomo Puccini famous quotes

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

#Inspiring #Inspiration #Men

Art is a kind of illness.
-- Giacomo Puccini

#Art #Kind #Illness

The work comes into the world at an undetermined hour, from a still unknown, but it comes inevitably.
-- Giacomo Puccini

#World #Hours #Stills

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

#Butterfly #Opera #Paper

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

#Color #Drawing #Cold

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

#Thinking #Years #Done

I lived for art, I lived for love
-- Giacomo Puccini

#Art

See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!
-- Giacomo Puccini

#Lying #Sleep #Night

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

To create is, first and foremost, to create time.

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.

Chop your own path. Get off the car track

Things worth having don't come easy," Woods said. "You have to fight for it until you're tired of fighting, and then you take a breather and fight some more." He squeezed my shoulder. "Don't give up. You'll regret it.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.