Jean Genet citáty
Jean Genet
Dátum narodenia: 19. december 1910
Dátum úmrtia: 15. apríl 1986
Jean Genet bol francúzsky románopisec, dramatik, básnik a politický aktivista.
Citáty Jean Genet
„My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.“
— Jean Genet, kniha Our Lady of the Flowers
Zdroj: Our Lady of the Flowers
„To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.“
— Jean Genet, kniha The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal (1949)
„I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.“
— Jean Genet, kniha The Thief's Journal
Zdroj: The Thief's Journal
„They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.“
— Jean Genet, kniha Our Lady of the Flowers
Zdroj: Our Lady of the Flowers
„Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.“
— Jean Genet, kniha The Thief's Journal
Zdroj: The Thief's Journal
„Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!“
— Jean Genet, kniha Querelle of Brest
Zdroj: Querelle of Brest
„Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.“
— Jean Genet, kniha Our Lady of the Flowers
Zdroj: Our Lady of the Flowers
„Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.“
— Jean Genet, kniha Querelle of Brest
Zdroj: Querelle of Brest