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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."

"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
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"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."


"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."


"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."


"The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind."


"The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings."


"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation."
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