#salieri

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary! ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#artistic-substance #mozart #musical-history #salieri #art

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can. ↗

— Maurice Baring

#contrast #does #genius #mozart #must

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#fact #gestures #had #hours #i

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#convincing #face #felt #i #into

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#big #character #fiction #great #had