“Conventional lives are the perfect refuge if you are a terrible artist.”
“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.”
“The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.”
“This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
“Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.”
“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”