Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.

When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

I feel that art is beyond language.

In my case, I take part in performance-oriented music and believe it is my call to show the audience something that both their eyes and ears can enjoy.

You can't get down and dirty at the opera.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

I've always loved to sing and dance, but the caliber of my talent in those areas obviously is not nearing Patti LuPone or Sutton Foster.

‎There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful thing because it opens the door to a life-long experience, a life-long enjoyment.