The inability of young persons to express an emotion which they feel and appreciate heartily, can be always overcome in this way. Relaxing frees the channels, and the channels being open the real poetic or dramatic feeling cannot be held back. The relief is as if one were let out of prison. Dramatic instinct is a delicate perception of, quick and keen sympathies for, and ability to express the various phases of human nature. This may sound cold.
Dramatic sincerity is the third school, and the school that seems most truly artistic.
Broad human sympathies, the imaginative power of identifying himself with all phases of human nature, if he has an ideal in his profession above the average, an actor cannot lack. By training, I always mean a training into Nature. As I have said before, if art is Nature illuminated, we must find Nature before we can reach art. Sincerity and simplicity are the foundations of art. A feigning of either is often necessary to the artificial, but many times impossible.