What did Jean Genet mean by: By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide. Jean Genet Playwright · France Copy
+ A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Genet, Action, Darkness, Dreaming, 0 Jean Genet Playwright · France
+ Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. Author, November 6, 2023January 2, 2025, Jean Genet, Knowledge, Sharing, Uniqueness, 0 Jean Genet Playwright · France
+ It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Genet, Freedom, Separation, Transition, 0 Jean Genet Playwright · France
+ The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Genet, Justice, Morality, Reason, 0 Jean Genet Playwright · France
+ Violence is a calm that disturbs you. Author, June 13, 2023January 2, 2025, Jean Genet, Calm, Disturbance, Violence, 0 Jean Genet Playwright · France
+ The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Genet, Action, Conflict, Passion, 0 Jean Genet Playwright · France
+ Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. Read explanation Author, January 18, 2024January 15, 2025, Jean Genet, Betrayal, Ecstasy, Ignorance, 0 Jean Genet Playwright · France
+ Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Genet, Control, Manipulation, Transformation, 0 Jean Genet Playwright · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. Read explanation Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. Jean-Jacques Annaud Director · France
What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter. Francois Delsarte Musician · France
