Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.

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.

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.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

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.