Treat Your Partner as a Poet, Genius, Artist
Also known as Treat Each Other as Artists
Del Close's directive that improvisers treat one another as if everything they do is brilliant, thereby making it brilliant.
Known for
- Attributed to Close in Truth in Comedy's opening principles.
- Treating an offer as genius is the ethical precondition for Yes, And — you can't build on what you've dismissed.
- Paired practically with 'there are no bad ideas, only unexplored ones.'
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