Best Grotowski Quotes

#1. Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.

Jerzy Grotowski

#2. I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Estelle

#3. It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me.

Jerzy Grotowski

#4. Young artists wish for inspired moments. And you find them; you take them; eager artists are bandits. Theatrical moments arrive, and ... you grab. Good! You know it will draw attention to you. But you aim to be more than bandits, no? So, okay ... now be Samurai.

Jerzy Grotowski

#5. When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

Regina Spektor

#6. If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.

Jerzy Grotowski

#7. The song becomes the meaning itself through the vibratory qualities. When we begin to catch the vibratory qualities ... the song begins to sing us ... I don't know anymore if I am finding that song or if I am that song.

Jerzy Grotowski

#8. I wasnt political in order to be political

Jerzy Grotowski

#9. Causes for attachment are created at the very time abhorrence occurs. Familiarity (acquaintance) up to a certain point will result in attachment and if it reaches 'ridge point' & goes past further, it will result in abhorrence.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. The important thing is to use the role as a trampoline, a chance to study and play with what is behind our masks. Creativity, especially where acting is concerned, Is boundless sincerity, yet disciplined.

Jerzy Grotowski

#11. I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

Alexa Chung

#12. Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

Mary Szybist

#13. There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so.

Jacob Bronowski

#14. He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Aristotle.

#15. Zion is in ruins, Jerusalem lies in the dust. All week there is only hope of redemption. But when the Sabbath is entering the world, man is touched by a moment of actual redemption; as if for a moment the spirit of the Messiah moved over the face of the earth.

Abraham Joshua Heschel