Jean Anouilh Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

  Jean Anouilh

  Love, Relationship, Giving

  ArdŠle(1949) p. 79

• Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

  Jean Anouilh

  Fake People, Inspiration, Giving

  Jean Anouilh (1960). “Becket or the Honor of God”

• The object of art is to give life shape.

  Jean Anouilh

  Art, Giving, Shapes

  Jean Anouilh, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Kitty Black (1961). “The rehearsal: a play in three acts”

• Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

  Jean Anouilh

  Beautiful, Death, Giving

• Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

  Jean Anouilh

  Life, Art, Nice

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “... Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette”

• Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

  Jean Anouilh

  Art, Mistake, Believe

  Jean Anouilh, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Kitty Black (1961). “The rehearsal: a play in three acts”

• My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.

  Jean Anouilh

  Giving Up, Years, Wife

  Jean Anouilh “The Waltz of the Toreadors”

• Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

  Jean Anouilh

  Art, Nice, Giving

  'La Rèpètition' (The Rehearsal, 1950) act 2

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