Creative Quotations from Eugene Ionesco (1912-1994)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Eugene Ionesco
(1912-1994) born on Nov 26

Romanian-French dramatist. His one-act "antiplay" "La Cantatrice Chauve," 1949 (The Bald Soprano) inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques including parody and slapstick.

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Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

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

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
R:	In "Pearls of Wisdom," ed. J. Agel and W. Glanze, 1987.
A:	"Notes and Counter-Notes," pt. 2, "An Address Delivered to a Gathering of French and German Writers," Feb. 1960; published 1962.
N:	"Exit the King."
K:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.