Top 25 Quotes by Luigi Pirandello of 62 - Page 3

I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking.

Character

Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.22, Jester House Publishing

I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth.

Luigi Pirandello

Art, Hate, Order

Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

Luigi Pirandello

Sleep, Phantoms, Spirit

Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.53, Luigi Pirandello

Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

Luigi Pirandello

Play, Tunes, Buffoons

Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.53, Luigi Pirandello

Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."

Luigi Pirandello

Women, Eye, Example

Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.19, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

Luigi Pirandello

Writing, Men, Doe

Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.11, Luigi Pirandello

Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!

Luigi Pirandello

Interpretation, Shakes, Feels

We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.

Luigi Pirandello

Mirrors, Hair, Ideas

Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.

Luigi Pirandello

Yield, Doe, Pieces

Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Luigi Pirandello

Character, Six

Title of play (1921)

Blind yourself, for I am blind.

Luigi Pirandello

Blind

Luigi Pirandello (1998). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.34, Ivan R. Dee

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Luigi Pirandello

Character, Writing, Alive

Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Six Characters in search of an Author, 1921) in Three Plays (1964) p. 64

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