"One does not devote one's life in art…" — Richard Foreman
"One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience."
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24 Quotes by Richard Foreman
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Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.
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My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
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I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like'…
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Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism…
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I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under…
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Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they…
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What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.
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As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors…
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I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I…
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Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
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It's true, I don't like the real world.
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I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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