56 Quotes by Constantin Stanislavski

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

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.

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

Truth in art is truth n circumstances.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.