Edward Gordon Craig > Quotes

“Perhaps one of the chief distinctions between a Drama for Marionnettes and a Proper Drama is this ... that whereas a Proper Drama has to be vague and roundabout in its movements, a Marionnette Drama had always better be direct and rapid and even obvious ... A Marionnette is not at all clever -- not subtle. He must fit the characte rlike a hand fits a glove, or all is undone. Therefore when we make a character in one of our Dramas we make the Marionnette to fit it. And so it comes about that a Marionnette does not play a number of parts, he plays only one... that is himself.”
― Edward Gordon Craig

“An ex-libris is to the book what a collar is to the dog”
― Edward Gordon Craig

“I LOOK LIKE IDA CELESTIA POND IF SHE WAS DROPPED INTO A POND, I AM A COMPLETE RIPOFF OF IDA CELESTIA POND.”
― Edward Gordon Craig

“When you tell me you have been satisfied at a modern theatre, you prove that it is not only the art which has degenerated, but that a proportion of the audience has degenerated also. But do not let this depress you.”
― Edward Gordon Craig, On the Art of the Theatre