Quotes by Alfred Jarry

About Alfred Jarry:

Alfred Jarry is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896). He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics.
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...and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.

Alfred Jarry

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

Alfred Jarry

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

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

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

Alfred Jarry

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

Alfred Jarry

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

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

Alfred Jarry

Author Bio

  • NameAlfred Jarry
  • DescriptionFrench writer
  • BornSeptember 8, 1873
  • DiedNovember 1, 1907
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Writer; Poet; Novelist