Jean Anouilh Giving Quotations

The object of art is to give life shape.

My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.

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.

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.