"It's only a way of putting myself in the right position for that ideal public. Because the danger is to please an immediate public—that comes around you and t

"It's only a way of putting myself in the right position for that ideal public. Because the danger is to please an immediate public—that comes around you and takes you in and accepts you and gives you success and everything. Instead of that, if you wait for your public, that should come 50 years.. 100 years after your death, that's the right public I want." "It's a habit, a repetition long enough to become 'taste'. If you cut it short (after you've done it), it stays as a thing by itself. But if it's repeated a number of times, it becomes a taste."