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Without abnegation, no truth for the artist. We should not preoccupy the
audience with our own personality. There is no true, simple or
expressive singing without self-denial. We must often leave people in
ignorance of our own good qualities.
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To use expression at random on our own authority, expression _at all
hazards_, is absurd.
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The mouth is a vital thermometer, the nose a moral thermometer.
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Dynamic wealth depends upon the number of articulations brought into
play; the fewer articulations an actor uses, the more closely he
approaches the puppet.
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A portion of a whole cannot be seriously appreciated by any one ignorant
of the constitution of that whole.
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An abstract having been made of the modes of execution which the artist
should learn before handling a subject, two things are first of all
requisite:
1. To know what he is to seek in that subject itself;
2. To know how to find what he seeks.
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Is not the essential principle of art the union of truth, beauty and
good? Are its action and aim anything but a tendency toward the
realization of these three terms?
* * * * *
We have a right to ask a work of art by what methods it claims to move
us, by which side of our character it intends to interest and convince
us.
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