To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

- Eleanora Duse

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of natu…

- Eleanora Duse

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

- Eleanora Duse

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

- Eleanora Duse

I use everything that I pick up in my memory, and everything that vibrates in my soul.

- Eleanora Duse

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

- Eleanora Duse

All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul

- Eleanora Duse

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

- Eleanora Duse

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

- Eleanora Duse