| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 6320 |
| QUOTATION: | The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. “Three Dialogues,” by Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit, p. 19, in Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Martin Esslin, Prentice-Hall (1965).
Beckett is speaking of the artist Bram Van Velde. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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