The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

performed at least a dozen Shakespearean characters at the Yale Repertory Theatre and ART, and directed the Cambridge company's 1980 inaugural production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.