The World Motivation
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
— Thornton Wilder · Art
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Cinemascope has become synonymous with 'epic,' and absolutely if you're shooting armies and certain kinds of vast landscapes, you do want that panoramic canvas to work on. But if you look at art history there's not a whole lot of epic paintings that are in that aspect ratio.
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.