When we speak the word ‘life,’ it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThe 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.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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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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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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