Quote

I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.

Eugene Ionesco

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Hated
Theatre
Started
Writing

More quotes by Eugene Ionesco

Image
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
Image
The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
Eugene Ionesco
Image
To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying
Eugene Ionesco
Image
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
Image
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
Image
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Eugene Ionesco
Image
A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
Eugene Ionesco
Image
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco
Image
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.
Eugene Ionesco
Image
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
Eugene Ionesco
Image
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
Eugene Ionesco
Image
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
Eugene Ionesco
Image
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
Eugene Ionesco
Image
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
Image
We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
Eugene Ionesco
Image
I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean?
Eugene Ionesco
Image
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
Eugene Ionesco
Image
Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
Eugene Ionesco
Image
We have not the time to take our time.
Eugene Ionesco
Image
All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
Eugene Ionesco