Actor Quote by Beatrice Wood

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

— Beatrice Wood

There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities…

— Jeanette Winterson

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage,…

— Martin McDonagh

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

— Simon McBurney

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

— Herbert Blau

Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.

— Augusto Boal

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

— M.I.A

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in…

— Robert Henri

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

— Charles Simic

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing…

— Elayne Boosler

The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an outlet in…

— Fritz Kreisler

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

— Steve Earle