Art Quote by Eleanora Duse Download Open image “Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.” — Eleanora Duse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Conventions Culture Tradition Values
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts. — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
“To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life. — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience. — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
I use everything that I pick up in my memory, and everything that vibrates in my soul. — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
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… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love! — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice,… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible. — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image