If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.

- Jerzy Grotowski

It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me.

- Jerzy Grotowski

The important thing is to use the role as a trampoline, a chance to study and play with what is behind our masks. Creativity, especially where acting…

- Jerzy Grotowski

The song becomes the meaning itself through the vibratory qualities. When we begin to catch the vibratory qualities...the song begins to sing us...I …

- Jerzy Grotowski

I wasnt political in order to be political

- Jerzy Grotowski

Young artists wish for inspired moments. And you find them; you take them; eager artists are bandits. Theatrical moments arrive, and...you grab. Good…

- Jerzy Grotowski

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrel…

- Jerzy Grotowski

Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.

- Jerzy Grotowski

Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.

- Jerzy Grotowski