Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckettwas a French-Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth13 April 1906
CityFoxrock, Ireland
CountryIreland
suffering artistic conditions
Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.
art stars moon
The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.
art painting
No painting is more replete than Mondrian's.
art literature events
The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.
art philosophy should-have
We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.
art philosophy reality
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
art old-things littles
I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.
art ignorance character
My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.
art philosophy dust
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
art philosophy history
That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.
art adventure imagination
An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.
art world crafts
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
art reality literature
Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.
art mind said
There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.