7 Quotes by Robert Edmond Jones

A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays the part of Napoleon to be Napoleon, or for an actor who plays Death in the old morality play to be dead.

Realism is something we practice when we aren’t feeling very well. When we don’t feel up to the extra effort.

We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.

The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

I would rather see great dreams in small places, than small dreams in great places.

Many people confuse imagination with ingenuity, with inventiveness. But imagination is not this thing at all. It is the peculiar power of seeing with the eye of the mind. And it is the very essence of the theatre.