Konstantin Stanislavski Quotes & Sayings

I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement. — Konstantin Stanislavski

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act. — Konstantin Stanislavski

In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone ... This is called solitude in public ... During a performance, before an audience of thousands, you can always enclose yourself in this circle, like a snail in its shell ... You can carry it wherever you go. — Konstantin Stanislavski

You can kill the King without a sword, and you can light the fire without a match. What needs to burn is your imagination. — Konstantin Stanislavski

If you are looking for something, don't go sit on the seashore and expect it to come and find you; you must search, search, search with all the stubbornness in you! — Konstantin Stanislavski

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy. — Konstantin Stanislavski

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art. — Konstantin Stanislavski

Everyone at every minute of his life must feel something. Only the dead have no sensations. — Konstantin Stanislavski

Love art in yourself, not yourself in art. — Konstantin Stanislavski

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

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. — Konstantin Stanislavski