The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves. Richard Wagner Read Quote
Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need. Richard Wagner Read Quote
I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal. Richard Wagner Read Quote
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. Richard Wagner Read Quote
How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification! Richard Wagner Read Quote
Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature’s need. Richard Wagner Read Quote
Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment. Richard Wagner Read Quote
We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual who, unchaining the elemental principles of human impulse under favoring circumstances, points out to greed and self-indulgence the speedy pathways to their satisfaction. Richard Wagner Read Quote
I have only a mind to live, to enjoy – i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd. Richard Wagner Read Quote
