Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes

Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

As artists, our primary function is not to be educators - but we are at a time in history, where for us, our history needs to give context for stories that we hope to tell down the road.

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.

It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so that my work regenerates the people, certainly Indian people, and the earth and the sun. And in that way we all continue forever.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.

Theater feeds my heart and soul.

Theater has been my way of learning about everything.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

I rebelled against the idea of the artist being what I call the 'after-dinner mint' of society. I didn't want them to be just the entertainers, but rather part of the community - the bread, not only the dessert.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

Having grown up around the theater, I've been moved by so many plays. Being a part of it, however small, is special.

I love theater. You can't replicate the live format.

When I discovered drama, I felt a connection.

Great theater continues to bind us, one to the other, and most of us will travel far and wide to see a good story told well.