Compassion may be called the fundamental of all good art because it alone can tell you what other … - Michael Chekhov

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One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

Michael Chekhov

Compassion may be called the fundamental of all good art because it alone can tell you what other beings feel and experience. Only compassion severs the bonds of your personal limitations, and gives you deep access into the inner life of the character you study, without which you cannot properly prepare it for the stage

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As actors and actresses, we must rejoice in the possession of our physical faculties. We must experience joy in the use of our hands, arms, body etc. Without this appreciation and realization of the body and its many possibilities, we cannot perform as artists You should feel a flow of joy because you are alive. Your body will feel full of life. That is what you must give from the stage. Your life. No less. That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? Your life-nothing more. And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.

Appreciation, Art, Mean, Possession, Possibilities, Rejoice

The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice, feelings, will, imagination - we give a form of pulsating art to life itself; we give it to our characters and we give it to our audiences. Nothing, absolutely nothing remains for us save the pleasure of having given pleasure. And yet it is only by this miraculous process that our love grows and our talent is fulfilled and replenished.

Art, Character, Fulfilled, Nothing, Theater, Voice

An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.

Acting, Actors, Burn, Ease, Outer

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

Artist, Bears, Deeply, Desire, Rooted, True

The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself.

Acting, Actors, Elaborated, Experiential, Imagination, Personal