26 Quotes by Eleanora Duse

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

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

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.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

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

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

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

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.