My name is Melisa and I am an artist. I am not a successful poet or a Meryl Streep...yet. "The in between" is to discuss art and what it means to be an artist. Anyone who wishes to comment is welcome. The important stuff lies in the spaces between the BIG Stuff. Those long stretches of silence, the routine of everyday life is where life happens, where potentially profound art is born.
Monday, November 21, 2005
Walking the Line
Sanford Meisner:
“Character comes from how you do what you do.”
“The process of filling a cold text with your life is what this process is in a nutshell.”
“Can you see where that controlling is the opposite of the spontaneous, deeply instinctive behavior we’re talking about?”
Konstantin Stanislavsky:
“Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets."
"Simpler, easier, higher, happier- these words should be inscribed on the front of every theater- the temple of art. Only love of art and everything sublime and beautiful that lives in the heart of every man, only that should be brought into a theater..."
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