I myself am an absolute abyss.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThere are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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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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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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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 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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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.
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A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt.
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Destroy 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.
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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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By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will … now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.
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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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