For music buffs, opera fiends, theater worshippers - for lovers of all the arts, this collection of quotations from across the ages is the final word on the compulsion we call culture. Quotations from the artists themselves, from the critics, from the audiences (and the enemies of culture too) combine to provide a rich source of opinion about the value of the arts and the role that they play for us, This book covers all the arts that group together to form our culture.