Antonin Artaud Quotes

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Life consists of burning up questions.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.

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.

The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.