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"A play visibly represents pure existing."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."
"Music communicates with the soul."
"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."
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"The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'"
"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone."
"A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it."
"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for."
"It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves."
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