Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.