10 Quotes by Jerzy Grotowski

The main point then is that an actor should not try to acquire any kind of recipe or build up a "box of tricks." This is no place for collecting all sorts of means of expression.

So always avoid banality. That is, avoid illustrating the author's words and remarks. If you want to create a true masterpiece you must always avoid beautiful lies: the truths on the calender under each date you find a proverb or saying such as: "He who is good to others will be happy." But this is not true. It is a lie. The spectator, perhaps, is content. The spectator likes easy truths. But we are not there to please or pander to the spectator. We are here to tell the truth.

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

Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.

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

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

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.

I wasnt political in order to be political.

So always avoid banality. That is, avoid illustrating the author’s words and remarks. If you want to create a true masterpiece you must always avoid beautiful lies: the truths on the calender under each date you find a proverb or saying such as: “He who is good to others will be happy.” But this is not true. It is a lie. The spectator, perhaps, is content. The spectator likes easy truths. But we are not there to please or pander to the spectator. We are here to tell the truth.