Alice Cooper - Laughing At Me

This quote seems to us very important for understanding Wagner's aesthetics and worldview. While not only his personality, but his work itself is being tried to be presented as hateful, decadent, selfish and xenophobic, it must be remembered that the highest ideal for which Wagner fought all his life was universal art, capable of revealing that divine principle in man, which stands above all the differences of cultures and nationalities and which is inherent only to the person with a capital letter. Subsequently, Wagner defines this beginning as Love, all-embracing and all-redeeming. Only Man is capable of experiencing this divine Love. But in order to ignite a spark of love in oneself, Man must be free - first of all, from the artificial conventions of modern civilization that is contrary to Nature.