Creativity Quote by Cecilia Bartoli

“Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red” reads like a performer thinking out loud, catching herself mid-compliment and then leaning into the sensory punchline. Bartoli isn’t offering a tourism brochure; she’s describing a kind of stage lighting the landscape supplies for free. The repetition of “gorgeous” feels less like lazy diction than like breathless emphasis: the way you talk when you’ve just stepped out of an airport into air that’s brighter, drier, and somehow louder than what you left behind.

The twist is “red.” Sunshine isn’t usually red, and that’s the point. Arizona’s light is rarely neutral; it’s filtered through dust, desert rock, and the famous sunsets that make even the banal feel cinematic. By insisting on “gorgeous red,” Bartoli shifts from postcard prettiness to a painter’s palette. It’s the language of someone trained to hear color and see sound - an opera star whose whole craft depends on exaggeration that still lands as truthful.

There’s subtext in the specificity: she isn’t praising “America” or “the West” in sweeping mythic terms. She’s reacting to a physical phenomenon, maybe on tour, maybe between rehearsals, encountering the Southwest as an aesthetic shock. The line carries the small, telling human comedy of awe: the first sentence is tidy; the second is a little unruly, as if the environment exceeds her vocabulary. That’s why it works. It captures how real wonder often arrives: not as eloquence, but as insistence.