Grotowski Quotes

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

Jerzy Grotowski

#2. I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.

Jonathan Ames

#3. I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive ... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

Bob Fosse

#4. You have only to creep into a secluded corner or into a crocodile, to shut your eyes, and you immediately devise a perfect millennium for mankind.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. Screw the rules, damn the consequences, and just love. Love until it kills you, because there's nothing better worth dying for.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#6. 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

#7. The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. I wasnt political in order to be political

Jerzy Grotowski

#9. 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

#10. It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

Banksy

#11. At first Ifemelu thought Kimberly's apologizing sweet, even if unnecessary, but she had begun to feel a flash of impatience, because Kimberly's repeated apologies were tinged with self-indulgence, as though she believed that she could, with apologies, smooth all the scalloped surfaces of the world.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#12. he climbed desperately to escape the unendurable nuzzling of that loathsome and overfed bhole

H.P. Lovecraft

#13. Fantastic. My little brother's ambition is to be a stick-in-the-mud moron with no personality.

Melina Marchetta

#14. No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

#15. 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

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

Jerzy Grotowski

#17. We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends
the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.

Friedrich Engels

#18. 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

#19. The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.

Nicholas Sparks