Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Giacomo Puccini

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian composer Giacomo Puccini.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late-Baroque era. Though his early work was firmly rooted in traditional late-19th-century Romantic Italian opera he later developed his work in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents.

Italian - Composer | December 22, 1858 - November 29, 1924

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Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Giacomo Puccini

Art is a kind of illness.

Giacomo Puccini

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?

Giacomo Puccini

I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation!

Giacomo Puccini

I lived for art, I lived for love

Giacomo Puccini

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

Giacomo Puccini

The work comes into the world at an undetermined hour, from a still unknown, but it comes inevitably.

Giacomo Puccini

See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!

Giacomo Puccini