“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.”
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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
