Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Eugene Ionesco
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
Diarist
Dramatist
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Stanwood
Washington
Ionesco
Eugen Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco
Adventure
Travel
Art
Work
Mind
More quotes by Eugene Ionesco
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
Eugene Ionesco
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
Eugene Ionesco
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
Eugene Ionesco
All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.
Eugene Ionesco
It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
Eugene Ionesco
I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
Eugene Ionesco
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Eugene Ionesco
Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
Eugene Ionesco
I am told, in a dream you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.
Eugene Ionesco
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
Eugene Ionesco
To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying
Eugene Ionesco
A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
Eugene Ionesco
I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
Eugene Ionesco
The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?
Eugene Ionesco
The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
Eugene Ionesco
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.
Eugene Ionesco
When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.
Eugene Ionesco
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
Eugene Ionesco
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
Eugene Ionesco
We have not the time to take our time.
Eugene Ionesco