Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Pucciniwas an Italian composer whose operas are among the important operas played as standards...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth22 December 1858
CityLucca, Italy
CountryItaly
lying sleep night
See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!
color drawing cold
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?
thinking years weight
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!
art
I lived for art, I lived for love
butterfly opera paper
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.
world hours stills
The work comes into the world at an undetermined hour, from a still unknown, but it comes inevitably.
art kind illness
Art is a kind of illness.
inspiring inspiration men
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.