The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

- Robert Edmond Jones

A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

- Robert Edmond Jones

We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dre…

- Robert Edmond Jones

The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.

- Robert Edmond Jones

There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays the part of Napoleon to be Napoleon,…

- Robert Edmond Jones

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

- Robert Edmond Jones