Samuel Beckett Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Stars, Moon

• An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Adventure, Imagination

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

• Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Doe, Clarity

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Riverrun Pr

• To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, World, Crafts

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

• Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Reality, Literature

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Riverrun Pr

• I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Philosophy, Knowing

• The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Philosophy, Dust

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.38, Faber & Faber

• We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Philosophy, History

• That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Philosophy, History

• We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Philosophy, Should Have

  Samuel Beckett (1959). “Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts”

• Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Philosophy, Reality

  First Love (1973) p. 8

• When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Ignorance, Independent

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

• No painting is more replete than Mondrian's.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Painting

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Riverrun Pr

• The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Events, Literature

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

• I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Old Things, Littles

• There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Mind, Said

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

• My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Ignorance, Character

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