Eleanora Duse Quotes

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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