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Gian Carlo Menotti
Italian
Composer
About the author
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Gian Carlo Menotti,
Italian
Composer
#Man
#Ignorance
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
Gian Carlo Menotti,
Italian
Composer
#Opera
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti,
Italian
Composer
#Art
#Flowers
#Effort
#Beauty
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,
Italian
Composer
#God
#Day
#Vision
#Hell
#Gifts
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
Gian Carlo Menotti,
Italian
Composer
#Quality
#Remembrance
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
Gian Carlo Menotti,
Italian
Composer
#Life
#Dream
#Waiting