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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
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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
Precepts, conventions – above all traditions – have no value in art. Eleanora Duse
Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher. Eleanora Duse
Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it. Eleanora Duse
If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that! Eleanora Duse
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 … Read more
First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience. 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
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
I did not use paint, I made myself up morally. Eleanora Duse