A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.

After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, ‘In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.’ I explained to him that I had no feeling for harmony. He then said that I would always encounter an obstacle, that it would be as though I came to a wall through which I could not pass. I said, ‘In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.’

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.