Quotes by Eleanora Duse

Eleanora Duse

… does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!

Art

Doe

Love

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

Artist

Revelations

Soul

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

Art

Teach

Understanding

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.

Actors

Firsts

Mind

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

Integrity

Paint

Use

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

Abundance

Rich

Riches

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

Memories

Soul

Use

Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

Beauty

Flames

Rome

If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!

Humanity

Sea

Ships

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!

Art

Mistake

Movie

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Enough

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Flames

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Helping

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Integrity

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Love

Love Is

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Nature

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Play

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Sea

Ships

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Soul

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Quotes by Eleanora Duse

Eleanora Duse

… does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!

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

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.

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

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

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

Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!

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