I painted sets before I ever performed..
Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions..
Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics..
Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception..
From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives a….
If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times..
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance..
Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen..
We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed an….
All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form..
The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence….
In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject, may be outweighe….
Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowes….
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant..
If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning.... The creative process shrivels in the absence of conti….
To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations an….
Ultimately, leadership is more about 'being' than 'doing.'.
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of worki….
It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art..
The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy; it is an al….
Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things..