Quotes
It is a little pointless to collect quotes; they are often prescriptive ideas that we happen to agree with or that match our experience. So, that is exactly what these are; statements I agree with enough of the time to share them…
The only persistent problem for the artist is to express a subject which is always the same and which cannot be changed, by finding a new form of expression each time. Francis Bacon
If your exercises change, you won’t. Richard Fowler
The Chinese character for theatre includes the element ge (axe), the same weapon associated with the fangxiang exorcist [one of the oldest indigenous religious practices] – reinforcing the close relation between exorcist ritual, acting and martial skill. Jo Riley
The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out to the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated in an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him. Andrei Tarkovsky
The political system of western representative democracies is based on certain rules in which all equal citizens can participate. It is a vulgar appeal against these principles that through art, not through democratic rules, the whole system should or could be altered. Mika Hannula
The notion of theatre has been diminished in the secular world where theatre is equated with entertainment by poor actors who have to win the approval of rich patrons. This attitude blinds itself to the truth; that theatre is older than language, that it is the primal form of human expression, where the body is employed to make and share meaning. Margaret Chan
Power is the ability to not to have to learn. Karl Deutsch
Practice in the morning, late afternoon, and in the evening. Go to bed, get up, and do it all over again. That is the way to succeed. T.T. Liang quoted by Ray Hayward
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. Moses Maimonides
Daoist ritual, Taijiquan and the stage are one system. And you can quote me. Dr. Michael Saso.
Artists don’t wonder, “What is it good for?” They aren’t driven to “create art,” or to “help people,” or to “make money.” They are driven to lessen the burden of the unbearable disparity between their conscious and unconscious minds, and so to achieve peace. When they create art, their nonrational synthesis has the power to bring us peace. The words of the rational mind have no power to bring us peace through art. David Mamet
Your moves have to have emotional content without you becoming emotional. Steve Morris
In later years Grotowski remarked that the best training for an actor might be some form of martial arts. He pointed out that in this type of combat exercise the results are always tangible. If you don’t do the right move, you get kicked. Jim Slowiak
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. Yeats
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