Tadeusz Kantor - It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at

It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.

- Tadeusz Kantor

source: Tadeusz Kantor (1993). “A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990”, p.114, Univ of California Press

topic: Men, Opposites, Firsts