"To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner."

-- Eleanora Duse

#Art Quotes #Drama Quotes #Air Quotes

“Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.”
“The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.”
“The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her.”

Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.87
“The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'”
“Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.”

Source : "Aloe Blacc: '50 Cent put me off rapping'" by Tom Ayres, www.digitalspy.com. June 5, 2011.
“We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.”
“To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.”

Source : "On Writing". Book by Eudora Welty, 2011.
“Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.”

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