Jean Anouilh
Jean Anouilh
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilhwas a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth23 June 1910
CountryFrance
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.
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.
I like reality. It tastes like bread.
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.
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
The object of art is to give life shape.
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.
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.