Janet Suzman Quotes

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.

It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

We promise you a hundred Shakespeares.

Lyrically, 'Nightmare' is an absolute masterpiece to me.

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good, when work is that good, you have to appreciate every aspect of it. It's the architecture of it, it's like looking at a Frank Lloyd Wright building or a Lautner building, it's master craftsmanship. Every aspect of it intertwines in a perfectly harmonious way. That's what architecture is at its best and the architecture of my father's music is on that level.

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.

Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day, for ever.

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.

George Saunders's 'Lincoln in the Bardo' is a hands-down masterpiece - the subject of Abraham Lincoln and the genius of this author is a perfect union.

I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

Whatever was said about Ralph Ellison, 'Invisible Man' was considered untouchable.

I think J. S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets but also as good as it gets, period - as good as existence, reality, life, and the world.

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.