You're right in demanding that the artist have a conscious relation to his work, but you are confusing two ideas: solving a problem and posing a problem correctly.

—Anton Chekhov, Letters to A.S. Suvorin

Choreography too will reassume tasks of a realistic nature. It is a mistake of recent time that it has nothing to do with the depiction of “people as they really are.” […] In any case a theater that bases everything on Gestus cannot do without choreography.

—Bertolt Brecht, Little Organon

All lije Murphy, is figure and ground.

—Samuel Beckett, Murphy

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