Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

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

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

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero!... I don't quite know what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.

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.