To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
ANTONIN ARTAUDAll true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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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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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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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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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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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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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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