The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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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 cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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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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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
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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 writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
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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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