If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!
To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible. - Eleanora Duse
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
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…
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art. - Eleanora Duse
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.
Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art. - Eleanora Duse
Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.
I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them. - Eleanora Duse
I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
I did not use paint, I made myself up morally. - Eleanora Duse
I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most. - Eleanora Duse
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul - Eleanora Duse
All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul
I use everything that I pick up in my memory, and everything that vibrates in my soul. - Eleanora Duse
I use everything that I pick up in my memory, and everything that vibrates in my soul.
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