Creative Quotations from Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Giacomo Puccini
(1858-1924) born on Dec 22

Italian composer. He wrote many operas with exotic settings including "La Boheme," 1896 and "Madame Butterfly," 1904.

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. . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances . . . . Is this not form?

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

Art is a kind of illness.

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?

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

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	In "Talks with Great Composers," by Arthur Abell, 1964.
R:	In "Talks with Great Composers," by Arthur Abell, 1964.
A:	In "Five Thousand Quotations for all occasions," by Lewis C. Henry, 1945.
N:	In "Talks with Great Composers," by Arthur Abell, 1964.
K:	In "Talks with Great Composers," by Arthur Abell, 1964.