Antonin Artaud Quotes

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    I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.

    ANTONIN ARTAUD
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    I 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.

    ANTONIN ARTAUD
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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.

    ANTONIN ARTAUD
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    The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

    ANTONIN ARTAUD
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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.

    ANTONIN ARTAUD
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    This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

    ANTONIN ARTAUD
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    By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will … now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.

    ANTONIN ARTAUD
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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.

    ANTONIN ARTAUD