"Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later."

-- Frank Stella

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“The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.”

Source : "Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly: the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam".
“Long after youâ€™ve forgotten someoneâ€™s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.”
“Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.”
“It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; itâ€™s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, â€˜live always at the â€˜edge of mysteryâ€™Ââ€”the boundary of the unknown.â€™ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.8, Penguin
“The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that the sciences don't, such as the intrinsic nature of causation or the dynamic character of temporal experience.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the most familiar, to the one who loves him as well as to himself.... The person one loves is as ungraspable as the universe, as God's infinite space, he is boundless, full of possibilities, full of secrets.”

Source : Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates
“You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.”
“If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.”

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