Art Quote by Iris Murdoch

“The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our existence. It can alert us to…

— Terry Eagleton

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

— Tony Kushner

“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic…

— Claude Calame

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

— Niels Bohr

“When truth and virtue are so rare in almost every area of our society the world needs theatre and the theatre needs actors who…

— Melissa Bruder

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

— Simon McBurney

“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search…

— Barbra Streisand

The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw…

— Charles Ludlam

“The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and…

— Iris Murdoch

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

— Anonymous

“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

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned…

— Thornton Wilder