Alfred Jarry Quotes
- You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
- Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
- God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
- Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.
- Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
- The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions…
- The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where…
- We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that…
- Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.
- It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that…
- To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is…
- Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.
- God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.
- It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
- It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom
- Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
- The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
- We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.