Life consists of burning up questions.
ANTONIN ARTAUDCruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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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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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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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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Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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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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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
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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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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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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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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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