With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
ANTONIN ARTAUD[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.
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The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.
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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
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In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
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