Eugene Ionesco Quotes

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

Art is not some inessential frippery - it is the nation's means of intelligently regarding itself. To cripple or stigmatize the arts is to doom one's nation to a life of incuriosity, dullness, literalness and the worst kind of rank materialism.

Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.