Quotes by Eugen Ionescu (Eugene Ionesco)
18 quotes by Eugen Ionescu (Eugene Ionesco)
Eugen Ionescu (Eugene Ionesco) - french Dramatist of Romanian origin
Also known as: Eugene Ionesco.
Was born on 26 nov 1909.
Died on 28 mar 1994, at 84 years old.
Died on 28 mar 1994, at 84 years old.
Origin country: România
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Quote by Eugen Ionescu about adventure, art, magic, mind, work
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
Quote by Eugen Ionescu about communication, man
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Quote by Eugen Ionescu about eternity, beauty, death
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
Quote by Eugen Ionescu about revolution
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 that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Quote by Eugen Ionescu about sadness, human imperfections, vice, absolute, pain, society, fear, death
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
Quote by Eugen Ionescu about despair, god
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
Quote by Eugen Ionescu about ideology, prison, philosophy, religion, life
