I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
ANTONIN ARTAUDWithout sarcasm I sink into chaos.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.
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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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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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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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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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.
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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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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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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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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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Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
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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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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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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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