Actors are athletes of the heart.
ANTONIN ARTAUDHell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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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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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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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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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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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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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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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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How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.
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The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
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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 see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
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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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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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