If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I shoul...d have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they... make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five lin...ks on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolati...on from life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the si...mple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »