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My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

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.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer , the viewer.

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.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

There’s something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.