There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.

As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.