Home / Quotes / Quote by Eugene Ionesco

Quote by Eugene Ionesco

“Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.”

Quote by Eugene Ionesco

Author

Eugene Ionesco was a renowned French playwright known for his absurdist plays. His works often explore the absurdity and meaninglessness of human existence, as well as the alienation of society and culture. Ionesco's dramatic style is unique, with concise and poetic language, which has had a profound impact on modern drama. more

You May Also Like

“I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.”

Song Turns Water Stage Dare Theatre Hats Fountain Tortoises Racehorses

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.”

Writing Use Courses Poet Accents Tribes Articulation New Words

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing May Stills Play Views Point Of View Obliged

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.”

Seems Certain Mankind Ridiculous

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.”

America Past Spiritual Political Spirit Battle Angel Ghost Ploy Angels In America

Author:Tony Kushner

“Real love isn't ever ambivalent.”

Real Love Is Real Love Ambivalent Angels In America

Author:Tony Kushner

“If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with”

Ifs Desire Lost Backyards

Author:Tony Kushner

“The body is the garden of the soul.”

Soul Body Garden

Book:Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes

Source: Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes

“Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.”

Way Has Beens School Choices Difficult Ability Answers Interesting Four Succeed Function Patterns Multiple Success In Life Ability To Choose Multiple Choice

Author:David Mamet

“The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity.”

Writing Teach Audience Direct Theatre Obedience Classroom Soothing Falsity

Book:True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

Source: True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor