Simon Taylor

– Autoritratto, Adolfo Wildt, 1868-1931 standing on the cusp of Symbolism and Expressionism: fluid surfaces of smooth marble torn from the model at the moment of paroxysm, like masks that have taken on their wearer’s emotion, and which, once removed, carry it with them. All that remains on the face

– one of Gustave Moreau’s Salomes Go to the masters, they all advise us not to create a poor art. From earliest times, they introduced into their paintings everything that they knew was richest, most brilliant, most rare and sometimes most strange, everything round them that was considered precious and

The problem of a loss of the theatre, Herbert Blau brilliantly engages in The Impossible Theatre, is neither the possibility of a concomitant loss of a private, community or social space, nor that of a civic or national identity, but introduces the possibility of the loss of the individual’s

I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way. —Eden Robinson

SWOT report shows structural defects (in the project to establish a small and economically sustainable theatre company called T-Cell): opportunity exists, and there are the personal strengths to make it so, commitment, passion, etc., & skills to realise it, and the weaknesses are not insuperable, i.e. the lack of

God has chosen the world that is the most perfect, that is to say, the one that is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena. – Leibniz, quoted in Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion, p. 646 Standing on a ship in Japan, I am closer