Precepts, Conventions - Above All Traditions -

Interpretation Is The Evidence Of Growth And Knowledge, The Latter Through Sorrow ? That Great Teacher.

Ibsen Is Like This Room Where We Are Sitting, With All The Tables And Chairs. Do I Care Whether You Have Twenty Or Twenty-five Links On Your Chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora And The Rest: It Is Not That I Want! I Want Rome And The Coliseum, The Acropolis, Athens; I Want Beauty, And The Flame Of Life.

First One Works Alone Through The Mind, Then Before The Public Through Experience.

Precepts, Conventions - Above All Traditions - Have No Value In Art.

I Did Not Use Paint, I Made Myself Up Morally.