Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarrywas a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi. He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth8 September 1873
CountryFrance
blind free french-writer strength
Blind and unwavering indiscipline at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
french-writer
We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
beauty elements taste
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
art crocodiles art-is
The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
tonight ugly company
You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
real men discipline
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
thinking suffering might
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
unique artist dresses
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 for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
use way ruins
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 is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.
memories duration becoming
Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.
fighting numbers needs
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 we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
mean ideas mad
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 mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.
zero infinite
Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.
mediocre
La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.