Arthur Miller Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

  Arthur Miller

  Real, Feelings, Cost

  "Tv's custom-tailored 'salesman'" by Don Shewwy, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1985.

• I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

  Arthur Miller

  Work, Believe, Mean

• If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

  Arthur Miller

  Communication, Responsibility, Expression

• By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

  Arthur Miller

  Business, Drama, Passion

  Arthur Miller (2009). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.53, A&C Black

• I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

  Arthur Miller

  Character, Thinking, Feelings

  Arthur Miller (2016). “Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.23, Penguin

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