Quotes About Genet

Without Genet as a witness, nothing I did was meaningful.

May I venture an explanation: writing is the ultimate recourse for those who have betrayed

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Sade and Genet both achieved freedom by squeezing it out of their characters. If Apollinaire was right to describe Sade, who spent more than half his adult life in prison, as 'the most free spirit that ever lived', this is how he achieved freedom.

Sade never got into the habit of concerning himself with what other people were thinking and feeling. As with Genet, the soil in which perversion grew was habitual solitude and constant frustration of the need to feel loved.

I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a lot of time after that at 'Gossip Girl' auditions, thinking, 'Wow, I really wasted my money.'

The Moors, who settled many parts of southern Europe in the eighth century, proved to be enthusiastic naturalisers. They are strongly suspected of, or were clearly responsible for, the introduction of at least four important mammal species into Europe: the Barbary macaque, porcupine, genet and mongoose.