"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the …" — Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like it

The arts of peace are great, And no less glorious than those of war

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author

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