The actor is an athlete of the heart.
ANTONIN ARTAUDTragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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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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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 am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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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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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.
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When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.
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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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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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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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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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So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.
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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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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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