Quote

Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages it all seems modeled after two or three types, and those the least like types of good acting. The fault generally lies less in the bad imitation of a good model, than in the successful imitation of a bad model.

George Henry Lewes

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Henry Lewes
Age: 61 †
Born: 1817
Born: April 18
Died: 1878
Died: November 30
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Theatre Critic
Writer
London
England
Like
Lying
Models
Fault
Whether
Lies
French
Less
Type
Remarkable
Modeled
Three
Stage
Model
Uniformity
Two
Least
Theatre
Stages
Seems
Seen
Generally
Imitation
Writing
Successful
Faults
German
Good
Acting
English
Types

More quotes by George Henry Lewes

Image
To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.
George Henry Lewes
Image
To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life mutually sustaining, when it is rugged with obstructions, and mutually rejoicing, when rich broad plains and sunny slopes make journeying delight.
George Henry Lewes
Image
The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
George Henry Lewes
Image
Good writers are of necessity rare.
George Henry Lewes
Image
Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.
George Henry Lewes
Image
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
George Henry Lewes
Image
The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.
George Henry Lewes
Image
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
George Henry Lewes
Image
Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace -- the many inquiries -- the fond regrets and thrilling hopes -- it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness.
George Henry Lewes
Image
A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.
George Henry Lewes
Image
Ideas are forces our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.
George Henry Lewes
Image
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
George Henry Lewes
Image
The history of the race is but that of the individual writ large.
George Henry Lewes
Image
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
George Henry Lewes
Image
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
George Henry Lewes
Image
No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.
George Henry Lewes
Image
The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.
George Henry Lewes
Image
Originality is independence, not rebellion it is sincerity, not antagonism.
George Henry Lewes
Image
Science is not addressed to poets.
George Henry Lewes
Image
Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.
George Henry Lewes