I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI myself am an absolute abyss.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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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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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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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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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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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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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
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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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The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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