The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts,… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
“This is why a tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
“Insane asylums are deliberate and premeditated receptacles of black magic, and it is not only that doctors encourage magic with their untimely and hybrid… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories,… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
