Richard Wagner - Artistic Quotes

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In order to see the Performer and the Poet take natural rise, we must first imagine to ourselves the artistic Fellowship of the future; and that according to no arbitrary canon, but following the logical course which we are bound to take in drawing from the Art-work itself our conclusions as to those artistic organs which alone can call it into natural life.

Richard Wagner

On to the stage, prepared by architect and painter, now steps Artistic Man, as Natural Man steps on the stage of Nature.

Richard Wagner

Artistic Man can only fully content himself by uniting every branch of Art into the common Artwork: in every segregation of his artistic faculties he is unfree, not fully that which he has power to be; whereas in the common Artwork he is free, and fully that which he has power to be.

Richard Wagner