All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
ANTONIN ARTAUDIn our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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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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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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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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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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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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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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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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