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What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It's this in-between that I'm calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one, which is really the realm of the artist.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
They ask me all the time what an artist is. A painter is someone who paints what is in front of him, but an artist is someone who shows us a new way of looking at the world.
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment, his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
You cannot dream yourself into a character. You must hammer and forge one for yourself.
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
I'm holding a mirror to the audience and telling them there is a violent person in all of us.
An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't, but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
When I became an actor my dream was to come here to Hollywood. You know Hollywood is a state of mind it's synonymous with a dream factory.
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work. The meaning of art in our time flows from this function of self-creation.
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide, he exposes himself.