Art Quote by Federico Garcia Lorca

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

— Beatrice Wood

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

— John Cage

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

— Tony Harrison

The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private.

— George C. Wolfe

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in…

— Stanley Elkin

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what…

— Diane Paulus

In the theater you can take your time and allow for people's artistry to surface.

— Amanda Bearse

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

— Romain Rolland

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the National Theatre was built, it was a public building. If you wander round that building now, there are bits hived off for…

— Roger Allam

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to…

— Arthur Miller

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

— Jennifer Tipton