We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThe actor is an athlete of the heart.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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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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There 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.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
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Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.
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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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