Tim Crouch Quotes & Sayings

“Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.”

“A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.”

“I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.”

“'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.”

“'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.”

“Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.”

“Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.”

“Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.”

“Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.”

“It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.”