“I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.”
- Eleonora Duse
“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.”
“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.”
“The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.”
“If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!”
“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.”
“To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.”
“... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!”
“Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow - that great teacher.”
“When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.”
“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.”
