I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI 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.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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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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Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.
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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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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
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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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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
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