I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than Die Meister Singer of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

~ Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams Art Artist

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

~ Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams World Doing Striving