The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
ANTONIN ARTAUD[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
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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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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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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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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 abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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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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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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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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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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[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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