It is the theater God would have built if he had the money.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance--all strewn with crumpled playbills.

a day of art at the theater.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.