Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThe actor is an athlete of the heart.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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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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I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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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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If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.
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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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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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By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will … now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.
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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 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 actor is an athlete of the heart.
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