Alfred Jarry Quotes

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

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

- Alfred Jarry

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

- Alfred Jarry

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

- Alfred Jarry

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

- Alfred Jarry

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

- Alfred Jarry

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