To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThere is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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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 am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.
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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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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
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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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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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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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