Max Frisch: Making

Max Frisch was Swiss playwright and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on making.

Max Frisch: 134 quotes4 likes

“It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple”

Max Frisch book Gantenbein

Gantenbein (1964)

“Plots- it seems there are thousands of them, all one's acquaintances known some, strangers make a present of them in letters, each the basis for a play or a novel…”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“He knows that every piece of selfknowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent his wishes to be recognized in the greatness of his selfknowledge which is no selfknowledge if it cannot be kept silent, and one becomes hypersensitive one feels betrayed because one wants to be recognized by people, one becomes ridiculous ambitious in inverse ratio to ones selfknowledge”

Max Frisch book Gantenbein

Gantenbein (1964)

“What makes Shakespeare so overwhelming is the way in which the situation (who is confronting whom) is usually itself part of the composition, meaningful already as a situation”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.”

I'm not Stiller (1955)

“The older you get the simpler you want to make it.”

Sketchbook 1966-1977