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

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul

If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!

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.

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

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.