Quotes by Ionesco, Eugene

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. >>

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, >>

The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a mom >>

Quotations about Myth

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths o >>

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of n >>

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather th >>

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.

Ionesco, Eugene