24 Quotations by Antonin Artaud
- 1. Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothe ...
- 2. All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
- 3. But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about dif ...
- 4. Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of you ...
- 5. Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNA ...
- 6. However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itsel ...
- 7. I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know t ...
- 8. It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psy ...
- 9. It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must ...
- 10. Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your ...
- 11. No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented, except literally to get out ...
- 12. So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right ...
- 13. The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath ...
- 14. The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete lan ...
- 15. The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, ...
- 16. Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of ...
- 17. There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of fol ...
- 18. There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, ...
- 19. Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me. I shall bring it into my own life.
- 20. We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness ...
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