I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
ANTONIN ARTAUDTo break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
ANTONIN ARTAUDWe have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
ANTONIN ARTAUDAnd if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
ANTONIN ARTAUDIn consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
ANTONIN ARTAUDHow hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.
ANTONIN ARTAUDDestroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
ANTONIN ARTAUDWithout sarcasm I sink into chaos.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThe idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
ANTONIN ARTAUDCruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this–I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.
ANTONIN ARTAUDPoetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
ANTONIN ARTAUDWith society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThose who live, live off the dead.
ANTONIN ARTAUD