Eleanora Duse Quotes

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

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

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

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

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#5. Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

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#6. 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.

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

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#8. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

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

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#10. Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

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

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#12. Does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!

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