I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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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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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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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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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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.
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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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