I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation!

- Giacomo Puccini

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

- Giacomo Puccini

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the pu…

- Giacomo Puccini

I lived for art, I lived for love

- Giacomo Puccini

The work comes into the world at an undetermined hour, from a still unknown, but it comes inevitably.

- Giacomo Puccini

See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!

- Giacomo Puccini

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident …

- Giacomo Puccini

Art is a kind of illness.

- Giacomo Puccini