There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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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 do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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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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Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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 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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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.
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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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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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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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