ABSTRACT
Tortsov started to sing some individual notes, with long gaps between them.
‘Could you call that singing?’ he asked. ‘No.’ ‘And this?’ He sang a few sustained, resounding notes, which flowed
into each other. ‘You could!’ Tortsov started to scribble individual, random lines, dashes, dots and
flourishes on a piece of paper and asked us: ‘Could you call that drawing?’ ‘No.’ ‘And could you make a drawing out of these lines?’ Tortsov drew a few
long, beautiful, curved lines. ‘You could!’ ‘So, you see, what any art needs first of all is unbroken lines?!’ ‘We see that!’ ‘And acting also needs an unbroken line. That is why I said to you that
when the line evens out, i.e. when it is unbroken, you can start talking about creative work.’
