Art is the objectification of feeling.
The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
No matter what as an artist that’s always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you’re singing about, you want to be able to convey that – and not make them feel – you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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