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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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More quotes by Eugene Ionesco
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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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
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
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Eugene Ionesco
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
Eugene Ionesco
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.
Eugene Ionesco
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Eugene Ionesco
We have not the time to take our time.
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
Eugene Ionesco
I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.
Eugene Ionesco
Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
Eugene Ionesco
The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
Eugene Ionesco
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
Eugene Ionesco
Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of déjà vu, when you are used to existence, you become an adult.
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
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
Eugene Ionesco
You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
Eugene Ionesco
