Constantin Stanislavski Quotes

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor.

Any view of things that is not strange, is false.