Those who live, live off the dead.
ANTONIN ARTAUDTo break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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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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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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How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.
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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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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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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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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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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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.
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By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will … now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.
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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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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
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