I Think Theatre Should Always Be Somewhat

It Would Appear That The Traditional Parliamentary Democracies Can Offer No Fundamental Opposition To That Automatism Of Technological Civilization And The Industrial-consumer Society, For They Too Are Being Dragged Helplessly Along By It. People Are Manipulated In Ways That Are Infinitely More Subtle And Refined Than The Brutal Methods Used In Post-totalitarian Societies.

If We Are To Change Our World View, Images Have To Change. The Artist Now Has A Very Important Job To Do. He's Not A Little Peripheral Figure Entertaining Rich People, He's Really Needed.

It Seems To Me That One Of The Most Basic Human Experiences, One That Is Genuinely Universal And Unites-or, More Precisely, Could Unite-all Of Humanity, Is The Experience Of Transcendence In The Broadest Sense Of The Word.

There Is Only One Art, Whose Sole Criterion Is The Power, The Authenticity, The Revelatory Insight, The Courage And Suggestiveness With Which It Seeks Its Truth. ... Thus, From The Standpoint Of The Work And Its Worth It Is Irrelevant To Which Political Ideas The Artist As A Citizen Claims Allegiance, Which Ideas He Would Like To Serve With His Work Or Whether He Holds Any Such Ideas At All.

Hope Is A Feeling That Life And Work Have Meaning. You Either Have It Or You Don't, Regardless Of The State Of The World That Surrounds You.