Zitat des Tages von Richard Wagner:
I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.
I wish I could score everything for horns.
Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.
Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Life is earnest - and always has been.
I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.
Imagination creates reality.
I write music with an exclamation point!
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'
The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.
Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.
I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.
I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.
Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need.