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Richard Foreman Quotes (displaying: 1 - 10 of 20 quotes)

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Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.
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All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.
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One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
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My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
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It's true, I don't like the real world.
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Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.
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I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.
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There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
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From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.
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I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.
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