At the time of Demidov's death, Stanislavsky considered Nikolai Demidov to be 'his only student, who understands the System'. Demidov's incredibly forward-thinking processes not only continued his teacher's pioneering work, but also solved the problems of an actor's creativity that Stanislavsky never conquered. An artist who has taken a small, modest idea can sometimes become so involved with its execution, with the artistic process itself, that, in the creative moments, he broadens and outgrows himself. If, in painting and sculpting, an artist strives for his dead material to "come to life" and achieves this in his best works. Only works that you can watch countless times without end, that enthrall you more and more, make you dig deeper and deeper, and seem newer and newer are true artistry. The ubiquitous hunt for exact repetition is what drives our theatres farther and farther away from true artistry.