Richard Wagner Quotes about Art

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

Art, Purpose, Conscious

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.

Richard Wagner

Art, Truth, Believe

"Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays".

These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat.

Richard Wagner

Art, Soul, Logic

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.

Richard Wagner

Art, Believe, Profound

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

Richard Wagner

Art, Might, Spirit

Richard Wagner (1972). “Prose works”

True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public... Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential -- will indeed incite the pantomimic art of dancing in turn to wholly new discoveries and inspire the breath of poetry no less to an undreamed-of fullness. For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression - the orchestra.

Richard Wagner

Art, Drama, Discovery

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

Richard Wagner

Art, Genius, Century

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

Richard Wagner

Art, Church, Relation

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

Richard Wagner

Art, Drama, Mean

Richard Wagner (1966). “Prose works”

Richard Wagner Quotes about Art

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