24 Quotes by Anne Bogart

Every creative act involves a leap into the void. The leap has to occur at the right moment and yet the time for the leap is never prescribed. In the midst of a leap, there are no guarantees. To leap can often cause acute embarrassment. Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act—a key collaborator.

Most of the truly remarkable experiences I've had in theatre have filled me with uncertainty and disorientation

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world. To reach out is to risk. There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self.

In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant human qualities in the present and then pass them on to future generations.

You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

The object is freedom.

I write myself into existence by the stories that I tell about my life. I also write with my posture and with my manner of walking and speaking, and I write with words and with my actions.

A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.