Eleanora Duse
Eleanora Duse
Eleonora Dusewas an Italian actress, often known simply as Duse. She is regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time, noted for her total assumption of the roles she portrayed. Duse was the subject of the 1947 biographical film Eleonora Duse...
partners
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
sea humanity ships
If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!
art helping share
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.
doors tables littles
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.
artist soul revelations
All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul
art drama air
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. 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.
drama air play
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.
teacher growth sorrow
Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.
art understanding teach
Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.
art tradition conventions
Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.
love art doe
... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
movie art mistake
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!
memories soul use
I use everything that I pick up in my memory, and everything that vibrates in my soul.
art theatre actors
To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.