The actor is an athlete of the heart.
ANTONIN ARTAUDWhen 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 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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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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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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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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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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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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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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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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I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.
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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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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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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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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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