Battle Quote by Antonin Artaud

I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written…

— Edward Gordon Craig

This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

“I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it. The theatre…

— Iris Murdoch

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

— Peter Brook

“I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another…

— Thornton Wilder

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

— Simon McBurney

The meaning of a theater event is that none of us could see something so clearly as with the new energy that is brought…

— Peter Brook

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

— Niels Bohr

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

— Eleanora Duse

A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation…

— Arthur Adamov