I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
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
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
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible. - Jean Genet
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them. - Jean Genet
They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. - Jean Genet
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
Violence is a calm that disturbs you. - Jean Genet
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserv… - Jean Genet
Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserv…
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? - Jean Genet
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
The pimp has a grin, never a smile. - Jean Genet
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle. - Jean Genet
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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