There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI 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.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.
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I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.
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I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this–I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.
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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 prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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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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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
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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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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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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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