Quotes by Alfred Jarry

• Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
• 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.
• God is the tangential point between zero and 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.
• We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
• It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty.
• Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.