Robert Brustein

“The subsidized theatre is the only theatre that can afford to fail.”

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”

“The moment a man begins to talk about technique, you can be sure he has nothing to say.”

“Subsidy is the only real answer to the plight of the Arts.”

“When the passion goes, the art goes.”

“It is the function of the artist to organize the terrors of life.”

“The new theater has assumed the task of participating in the radical transformation of our society.”

“In an age of media-manufactured celebrities, the great task of the artist is to be a person.”

“Culture is the capacity to imagine the other.”