Famous quotes containing the words american and/or stage:
“The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.”
—Paul Valéry (1871–1945)