Top 10 Quotes by Anne Bogart

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

Might, Results, Happens

Anne Bogart (2003). “A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre”, p.124, Routledge

Do not wait for enough time or money to accomplish what you think you have in mind. Work with what you have right now. Work with the people around you right now…. Do not wait for what you assume is the appropriate, stress-free environment in which to generate expression…. Do not wait till you are sure that you know what you are doing…. What you do now, what you make of your present circumstances, will determine the quality and scope of your future endeavors.

Anne Bogart

Stress, Thinking, Expression

You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

Anne Bogart

Artist, Growth, Humans

Anne Bogart (2003). “A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre”, p.118, Routledge

Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.

Anne Bogart

Art, Choices, Acting

In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant human qualities in the present and then pass them on to future generations.

Anne Bogart

Memories, Past, Literature History

We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and scientist, is to re-describe our inherited assumptions and invented fictions in order to create new paradigms for the future.

Anne Bogart

Artist, Order, Tasks

Anne Bogart (2003). “A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre”, p.19, Routledge

The Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki once stated, 'International cultural exchange is impossible - therefore we must try.' I agree with all my heart. The impossibility of seeing beyond one's own cultural context is a political act in the world and has the potential to break down the rigid assumptions surrounding us.

Anne Bogart

Heart, Political, Trying

Anne Bogart (2007). “And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpredictable World”, p.16, Taylor & Francis

It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world. To reach out is to risk. There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self

Anne Bogart

Self, Grace, Risk