Gian Carlo Menotti famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
-- Gian Carlo Menotti

#Wise #Wisdom #Ignorance
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
-- Gian Carlo Menotti

#Beauty #Art #Flower
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
-- Gian Carlo Menotti

#Dream #Waiting
Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
-- Gian Carlo Menotti

#Heart #Long #Gone
Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
-- Gian Carlo Menotti

#Accountability #Vision #Done
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
-- Gian Carlo Menotti

#Remembrance #Quality #Ears
I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.
-- Gian Carlo Menotti

#Love #Heart #Space
Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.
-- Gian Carlo Menotti

#Love #Love Is #Charity
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
-- Gian Carlo Menotti

#Opera #Composer #Feels
Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers-roses and lilies-which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon was accustomed to feast his eyes.
-- Gian Carlo Menotti

#Love #Inspiring #Flower

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