Gian Carlo Menotti Art Quotations

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as deep as you can. This is what I've done.

The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not a note can be changed.

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.