Jean Genet Quotes

When A Man Invents An Image That He Wants To Propagate, That He May Even Want To Substitute For Himself, He Starts By Experimenting, Making Mistakes, Sketching Out Freaks And Other Non-viable Monsters That He Has To Tear Up Unless They Disintegrate Of Their Own Accord. But The Operative Image Is The One That's Left After The Person Dies Or Withdraws From The World, As In The Case Of Socrates, Christ, Saladin, Saint-Just And So On. They Succeeded In Projecting An Image Around Themselves And Into The Future. It Doesn't Matter Whether Or Not The Image Corresponds To What They Were Really Like: They Managed To Wrest A Powerful Image From That Reality.

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