Herbert Blau quotes

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.
-- Herbert Blau

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As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.