Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour .
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No painting is more replete than Mondrian's. Go to Quote / Comment
Make sense who may. I switch off. Go to Quote / Comment
Art has always been this—pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric—whatever else it may have been obliged by social realit... Go to Quote / Comment
The freedom of indifference, the indifference of freedom, the will dust in the dust of its object, the act a handful of sand let fall—these ... Go to Quote / Comment
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... Go to Quote / Comment