When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.