A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
ANTONIN ARTAUD- Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
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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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDIn our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
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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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I myself am an absolute abyss.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI myself am an absolute abyss.
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
ANTONIN ARTAUDWe must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
ANTONIN ARTAUDPoetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
ANTONIN ARTAUDTragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDAdmittedly 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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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
ANTONIN ARTAUDHell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDIf 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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I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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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 ARTAUDThere 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.
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This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
ANTONIN ARTAUDWe have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThe actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
ANTONIN ARTAUDCruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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