Leonard Bernstein Quote

Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.


"What Makes Opera Grand?", Vogue (December 1958)


Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of...

Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of...

Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of...

Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of...