Duse Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty ... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard! — Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

You know, the critics never change; I'm still getting the same notices I used to get as a child. They tell me I play very well for my age. — Mischa Elman

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

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

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

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

In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, Collins, Dupont, Warner, Russell, the world's monarchies, the Vatican. But also prayed upon by these family's employees, by governments, by the military, by banking institutions, by academia. So who does that leave? That's all the people who aren't wealthy, aren't connected, aren't educated, who are easy to manipulate, are easy to persecute and who don't believe any of the issues which you cover on Red Ice. And that's a problem. And that breaks my heart. — Sean Young

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

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! — Eleanora Duse

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

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

Nothing is known until the heart knows it. — Marty Rubin

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

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

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally. — Eleonora Duse

My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught me how to use the right knives and forks and behave properly. — Charles Dance

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

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

More books." His eyes went wide. "You have, like, then books you just said you haven't read."
"Doesn't mean I won't get more books." I smiled at is incredulous expression. "I haven't been able to read a lot lately, but I will, and then I won't be out of anything new to read. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world. — Anne Rice

One of the marks of a godly woman is that she takes responsibility for her soul's need for joy and delight. A woman is a conductor, who leads the orchestra of her surroundings in the songs and music of her life. God is a God of creativity and dimension, and so He is pleased when we we co-create beauty in our own realm, through the power of His Spirit.
It was a profound realization when I understood that I could become an artist with my very life. — Sally Clarkson

Just say something real. Everyone just always tries so hard, and it all comes out the same. I just want someone to say something real. — Katie Alender

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most. — Eleonora Duse

To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind. — Edmund Burke

Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said 'Cease to grieve', but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone. — Isadora Duncan

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

Does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love! — Eleanora Duse

I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time. — Carine Roitfeld

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