I dont need the money, dear. I work for art. – Maria Callas
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after Ive left the opera house. – Maria Callas
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. – Maria Callas
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupils means great teachers foresee a pupils ends. – Maria Callas
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. – Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon