Jean Anouilh - Best Quotes

To say yes you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no even if saying no means death.

Courage

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Jean Anouilh

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Courage

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Author: Jean Anouilh

One cannot weep for the entire world it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius power and magic in it. Only engage and then the mind grows heated. Begin and then the work will be completed.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope that foul deceitful thing has no part in it.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ask anyone the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

An ugly sight a man who is afraid.

To say yes you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no even if saying no means death.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.