Constantin Stanislavski Quotes

I love every aspect of the performing arts and can't imagine myself doing anything different. I give my heart to every project.

I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.

I survived on sandwiches, and I was on stage every night for six years of my life. I was working 16 hours a day between class, rehearsal, being on stage.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I have so much love for art.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

I go to my office nearly every day, and I'll sit there for six or seven hours and come up with ideas, and that's the only way I can justify turning up on stage.

I think acting is the most difficult one among all the performing arts.

There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art - which is art.

It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.

Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.

When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.

My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.

When I started performing I was like, "Holy hell, how am I going to survive this?" I was giving it my all in 15 minutes but now I had to do it for two hours.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.