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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDNo one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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 do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.
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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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.
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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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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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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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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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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 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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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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