The actor is an athlete of the heart.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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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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When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.
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The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
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The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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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 cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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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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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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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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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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I 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.
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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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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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