It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.