Quote

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

Arthur Miller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Arthur Asher Miller
Rather
Formulation
Problem
Statement
Play
Accurate
Great
Statements
Thing
Theatre
Much
Answer
Think
Answers
Thinking
Possible

More quotes by Arthur Miller

Image
The Devil is precise the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
Arthur Miller
Image
Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
Arthur Miller
Image
Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.
Arthur Miller
Image
It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.
Arthur Miller
Image
Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.
Arthur Miller
Image
For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.
Arthur Miller
Image
I'm the end of the line absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
Arthur Miller
Image
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur Miller
Image
Peace. It is a providence, and no great change we are only what we always were, but naked now.
Arthur Miller
Image
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
Arthur Miller
Image
A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!
Arthur Miller
Image
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
Arthur Miller
Image
Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.
Arthur Miller
Image
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Arthur Miller
Image
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Arthur Miller
Image
Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul leave me my name!
Arthur Miller
Image
The brain heals the past like an injury.
Arthur Miller
Image
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
Arthur Miller
Image
I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
Arthur Miller
Image
Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
Arthur Miller