Viola Spolin Quotes

Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre.

The unknown is where we go to find new things and intuition is how we find them.

The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.

Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.

First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.

Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.

One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.

That which is not yet known comes out of that which is not yet here.

Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.

General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.

Don’t initiate! Follow the initiator! Follow the follower.

When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

My vision is a world of accessible intuition.

First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.