That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.
Richard WagnerEven 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.
Richard WagnerWhatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
Richard WagnerWhat Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.
Richard Wagner