When ideals intersect with reality, disappointment and heartache will always result. Stanislavski knew this, which is why he loved art so much, with its ability to take real-life experience and purify it, turning it into something more beautiful and more meaningful. But it is also why he could never be content with the art he made, or the theories he devised, or the way they were implemented. The Method ultimately created standards that no one could live up to, and for some of the people who believed in it, the unrelenting pressure of these standards proved impossible to bear.
