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

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

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

Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!

If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!

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.