I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.
ATTRIBUTION:
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. “Three Dialogues,” by Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit, p. 17, in Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Martin Esslin, Prentice-Hall (1965).
