So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThe fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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[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.
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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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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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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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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.
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