
Quotes by Eugen Ionescu (Eugene Ionesco)
18 quotes by Eugen Ionescu (Eugene Ionesco)
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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


You can only predict things after they have happened.
Quote by Eugen Ionescu about things, contentment