Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Alfred Jarry
- It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one’s own bedroom.
- It is conventional to call ”monster” any blending of dissonant elements. I call ”monster” every original inexhaustible beauty.
- It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
- Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.
- 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.
- It is conventional to call ‘monster’ any blending of dissonant elements. I call ‘monster’ every original inexhaustible beauty.
- Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.
- 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.
- Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
- 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.
Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) was a French writer and avant-garde playwright best known for his play “Ubu Roi,” a groundbreaking work that defied theatrical conventions. Born in Laval, France, Jarry displayed an early aptitude for literature and art. He studied at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris and was influenced by symbolist and decadent movements.
Jarry’s most significant contribution to literature came with the premiere of “Ubu Roi” in 1896, a play that satirized conventional values and bourgeois society. The absurd and surreal nature of the play, along with its disregard for traditional norms, marked the advent of the Theatre of the Absurd.
Jarry’s unconventional lifestyle matched his artistic pursuits; he was known for his eccentric behavior, heavy drinking, and drug use. His works had a profound impact on the Dada and Surrealist movements that followed. Tragically, Jarry’s life was cut short when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 34.
Despite his relatively brief career, Alfred Jarry’s influence endured, and he is remembered as a pioneering figure in the development of modern drama and the avant-garde movements of the early 20th century.
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