Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian actress Eleonora Duse.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse, often known simply as Duse, was an Italian actress, rated by many as the greatest of her time. She performed in many countries, notably in the plays of Gabriele d'Annunzio and Henrik Ibsen. Duse achieved a unique power of conviction and verity on the stage through intense absorption in the character, "eliminating the self" as she put it, and letting the qualities emerge from within, not imposed through artifice.
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
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.
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.
I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.
If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.