Daily Inspiration Quote by Richard Foreman

A confession that’s also a dare: Foreman’s line sounds petulant on the surface, then sharpens into an aesthetic manifesto. “It’s true” performs a little preemptive damage control, like he’s bracing for the predictable eye-roll - yes, he knows how it sounds. That framing matters because Foreman’s theatre has always treated realism as a kind of cultural coercion, the dominant genre that tells us what counts as “serious,” “mature,” and “true.” By refusing the “real world,” he’s not endorsing escapism so much as rejecting the way reality gets packaged: linear plots, psychologically legible characters, tidy moral accounting.

The subtext is impatience with consensus. The “real world” here isn’t rent and gravity; it’s a socially agreed-upon script about how to perceive, how to pay attention, what to ignore. Foreman’s work (especially with the Ontological-Hysteric Theater) tries to short-circuit that script through interruption, overload, and deliberate artificiality. So the dislike is productive: it’s the engine that pushes him toward anti-illusion, toward theatre that keeps reminding you you’re watching theatre.

Contextually, this lands as a late-20th-century avant-garde counterpunch to naturalism’s long reign and to mass media’s smooth simulations. The line reads like a defense of the mind’s right to be unruly. Foreman isn’t fleeing the world; he’s refusing to let one narrow version of it monopolize what art is allowed to do.