To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

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.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

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.

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

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

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