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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI 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.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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When we speak the word ‘life,’ it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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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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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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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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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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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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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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