Simpler, easier, higher, happier—these words should be inscribed on the front of every theatre— the temple of art. Only love of art and everything sublime and beautiful that lives in the heart of every man, only that should be brought into a theatre by everyone entering it and poured out from every man as from a pail of pure water, a thousand of which will today wash off the dirt from the whole building, if it had yesterday been contaminated by the passions and intrigues of men. Those who found a studio or a theatre ought first of all to pay the greatest possible attention to the atmosphere that prevails in. Great care must particularly be taken to make sure that fear in whatever shape or form does not find its way into a studio and dominate the minds of those who either run it or study in it, and that the hearts of everybody there should be inspired and united only by beauty. Without the idea of union in beauty no theatre can exist, nor indeed would such a theatre serve any purpose.
— Konstantin Stanislavsky