Dario Fo

Film & Theater Italy 1926 – 2016 101 quotes

Nobel-winning commedia dell'arte revivalist of Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Fo's farce delivered quotable anti-authority jabs.

Quotes by Dario Fo

The theatre is a place where we can challenge authority.

Speech

To be a jester is to be a poet.

Interview

The most important thing is to never give up.

Speech

Art is a form of communication.

Interview

The theatre is a place where we can find our voice.

Speech

To be an artist is to be a storyteller.

Interview

The greatest gift is the ability to laugh.

Speech

Humor is a way of understanding the world.

Interview

The artist must be a revolutionary.

Interview

The theatre is a place where we can create a better world.

Speech

Theater is the art of making the invisible visible, the unspoken spoken.

Interview 1970

In Italy, we don't have a right wing or a left wing; we have a chicken wing and a vulture wing.

Speech 1985

A joke is the truth wrapped in a smile.

Play: Mistero Buffo 1960

Power corrupts, but theater redeems.

Nobel Lecture 1997

Life is a farce, and we are all clowns in it.

Play: Thieves in the Night 1959

The voice of the people is the voice of God, but only if it's amplified on stage.

Speech 1973

Art is not a luxury; it's a weapon against tyranny.

Interview 1968

To laugh at power is to undermine it.

Play: Accidental Death of an Anarchist 1980

History is written by the victors, but theater rewrites it for the defeated.

Essay 1990

In the face of injustice, silence is complicity.

Letter 1975