Eugene Ionesco

“Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.”

“The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.”

“The critic should describe, and not prescribe.”

“A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.”

“Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.”

“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition...”

“Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.”