Quotes by Gian Menotti

• A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
• Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
• Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
• Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
• Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
• Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.