All Alfred Jarry Quotes
- You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company? Company
- Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men. All
- God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. God
- Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory. Born
- Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. Applause
- 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… Already Know
- 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… Artist
- 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… Building
- Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY. Becoming
- 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… Bear
- 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… Behind
- Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind. Communication
- God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity. Distance
- It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty. Any
- It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom Bedroom
- Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world. Another World
- The work of art is a stuffed crocodile. Art
- We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. Applause