Alfred Jarry Quotes
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.
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.
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.
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.
Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.
...and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.
One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.