Top 31 Duse Quotes
#1. As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
#2. Does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
Eleanora Duse
#4. The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
Eleonora Duse
#5. Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.
Eleanora Duse
#6. If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!
Eleonora Duse
#7. When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
Eleonora Duse
#8. The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
Eleonora Duse
#9. 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.
Eleanora Duse
#10. She looks like a cheery girl, the kind who pledges Kai Beta Bullshit and throws mixers on the weekend with the frat boys at Alpha Kappa Douchebag.
J.M. Darhower
#11. To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.
Eleonora Duse
#12. I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.
Eleonora Duse
#13. You can exercise your authority as a
believer because you are seated with Jesus in the heavenly places.
Pedro Okoro
#14. All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul
Eleanora Duse
#15. 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 nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Eleonora Duse
#16. 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.
Eleanora Duse
#17. First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.
Eleanora Duse
#18. Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.
David H. Murdock
#19. Why won't you leave me alone?
Then I'd be alone too.
Leigh Bardugo
#20. I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.
Julian Sands
#21. Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.
Eleanora Duse
#22. Of course, there are some people who behave rudely. Allen Ginsberg used to like to get up in public and take his clothes off. I don't do that, but I liked Allen Ginsberg. He was a nice guy.
Sam Hamill
#23. 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.
Eleanora Duse
#24. Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.
Eleanora Duse
#26. I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
Eleanora Duse
#27. The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
Albert Camus
#28. To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.
Eleanora Duse
#29. Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.
Paul Banks
#31. I use everything that I pick up in my memory, and everything that vibrates in my soul.
Eleanora Duse
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