I use everything that I pick up in my memory, and everything that vibrates in my soul.

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.