Konstantin Stanislavski Quotes

#1. I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.

Konstantin Stanislavski

#2. You can kill the King without a sword, and you can light the fire without a match. What needs to burn is your imagination.

Konstantin Stanislavski

#3. The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

Konstantin Stanislavski

#4. Everyone at every minute of his life must feel something. Only the dead have no sensations.

Konstantin Stanislavski

#5. Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

Konstantin Stanislavski

#6. If you are looking for something, don't go sit on the seashore and expect it to come and find you; you must search, search, search with all the stubbornness in you!

Konstantin Stanislavski

#7. In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

Konstantin Stanislavski

#8. Love art in yourself, not yourself in art.

Konstantin Stanislavski

#9. If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act.

Konstantin Stanislavski

#10. Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

Konstantin Stanislavski