I Think, By And Large, The Level

One Cannot Demand Of Art That It Pay You In Any Other Way Than In The Satisfaction Of The Work Itself.

Since The Time Of The Ancient Greeks A Democracy Has Depended On Its Philosophers And Creative Artists. It Can Only Flourish By Continuous Probing, Prodding, And Questioning Of The Social Conditions Under Which Man Exists And Tries To Better Himself. One Of The First Moves Of A Dictatorship Is To Stifle The Artists And Thinkers Who Have The Ability To Stir Up Dissent From Any Prescribed Dogma Which Might Enslave Them. Because The Artist Can Arouse The Curiosity And Conscience Of His Community, He Becomes A Threat To Those Who Have Taken Power.

No Work Of Art Is Ever Finished, Nothing Is Ever Static, No Performance Is For Keeps.

We Were Not Allowed To Say, Screw, But We Could Say, Hump The Hostess, Because Hump Is In Shakespeare.

It Must Be Noted That It Is Often The Colleague Or Direct Disciple Of A New Thinker Who Gets Stuck In Literal Interpretations Of The Work, Tending To Freeze The New Ideas And Language Into An Inflexible, Static Condition.