Cecilia Bartoli Quotes

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift.

Voice is the first instrument.

I can't make a perfect record. When I try to, I bleed all the feeling out of it.

When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

Music is the perfect type of art.

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'

I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never transcend being just snapshots. When a great photographer does infuse the snapshot with his personality and vision, it can be transformed into something truly moving and beautiful.

Today it’s economically crucial and personally rewarding to create something that is also beautiful, whimsical, or emotionally engaging.

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people to appreciate.

The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra in the production.