Alfred Jarry Quotes

"The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character."
- Alfred Jarry
(Related: Life, Character, Conflict, Theater)

"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."
- Alfred Jarry
(Related: God, Infinity)

"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."
- Alfred Jarry

"We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts."
- Alfred Jarry
(Related: Applause, Silence)

"It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty."
- Alfred Jarry
(Related: Beauty)

"Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men."
- Alfred Jarry
(Related: Men, Strength, Blind)