The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
ANTONIN ARTAUDActors are athletes of the heart.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.
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I 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.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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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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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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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 prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
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And 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.
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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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