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.
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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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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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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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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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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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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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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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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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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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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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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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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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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