Edward Gordon Craig Quotes

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“The Reality? Is it then so certain that Life is made of four Absurdities?
Is it not far more certain that life is made up of Four Beauties
of Calmness, Joy, Harmony, Rhythm…
The truest reality.
And what of the expression of all this — Art?
Must Pandemonium and Ugliness ever stand for Strength?”

Edward Gordon Craig

Introduction to Isadora Duncan : Six Movement Designs (1906)
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Life , Beauty , Art , Reality

“I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.”

Edward Gordon Craig

As quoted in On the Art of the Theatre http://books.google.pl/books?id=ZQv533ZK6IQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (2009), p. 53.
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Art , Time

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