Luigi Pirandello

Film & Theater Italy 1867 – 1936 101 quotes

Nobel winner of Six Characters in Search of an Author, Pirandello questioned reality with quotable metaphysical twists.

Quotes by Luigi Pirandello

The world is a reflection of ourselves, and we are all creating it.

Six Characters in Search of an Author 1922

The only way to change the world is to change yourself.

Six Characters in Search of an Author 1922

We are all artists, and we are all painting our own lives.

Six Characters in Search of an Author 1922

The world is our canvas, and we are all creating our own masterpieces.

Six Characters in Search of an Author 1922

The only way to make a masterpiece is to follow your heart.

Six Characters in Search of an Author 1922

We are all musicians, and we are all playing our own melodies.

Six Characters in Search of an Author 1922

The world is our symphony, and we are all creating our own harmonies.

Six Characters in Search of an Author 1922

The only way to make a beautiful melody is to listen to your soul.

Six Characters in Search of an Author 1922

We are all dancers, and we are all dancing our own dances.

Six Characters in Search of an Author 1922

The world is our stage, and we are all performing our own ballets.

Six Characters in Search of an Author 1922

The only way to make a perfect dance is to let your body move freely.

Six Characters in Search of an Author 1922

Drama is the quintessence of life; it is life itself, but condensed, intensified, and expressed in terms of action.

Speech 1925

The philosophy of relativity is at the root of my work.

Nobel Lecture 1934

We no longer have either princes or kings, but there are still plenty of people who die because they think they are Don Quixotes.

Six Characters in Search of an Author 1918

Life is a most serious thing, and the world is a place to be saved and not simply to enjoy.

The Late Mattia Pascal 1904

Each of us has his own reality, and that is valid for each.

Henry IV 1921

The theater is the only place in the world where a man is afraid of being honest.

Interview 1922

I am a man of flesh and blood, but I live as if I were a shadow.

Letter 1908

Truth is not a fixed point; it changes with the eyes that see it.

Right You Are (If You Think So) 1916

In art, as in love, instinct is enough.

Essay 1920