"The actor must be able to experience for himself how the word, the artistically formed and spoken word, can reveal the whole being of man. This penetrating insight that can behold the word as a revelation of man cannot fail to give him a more spiritual conception of his calling; and once he has that, he will be able to arouse within him the necessary energy to make his work increasingly artistic, gradually bringing more and more artistic form into every detail of his acting."

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"If we trace drama right back to the place of its birth, we come ultimately to what are known as the Mysteries. It is, in fact, not possible to have a worthy conception of dramatic art unless we are able to see its origin in the art of the Mysteries. Now, the art of the Mysteries had this aim in view: that what took place on the stage should proceed from those impulses that make their way into man from the spiritual world… Only when we have learned to discern in the whole art of dramatic representation something of the magic of its birthplace in the Mysteries - only then is it possible for us to understand the true nature of dramatic art.”

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Rudolf Steiner - The Mystery Character of Dramatic Art, Lecture X, 14 September 1924

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