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> [I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/i-do-not-like-detached-creation-neither-can-i-conceive-of-the-mind-as/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

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> [The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/the-idea-of-a-detached-art-of-poetry-as-a-charm-which-exists-only-to/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

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## Other authors on Detached

## More by Antonin Artaud

> [With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/with-society-and-its-public-there-is-no-longer-any-other-language/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/i-cannot-conceive-any-work-of-art-as-having-a-separate-existence-from/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [“This is why a tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/this-is-why-a-tainted-society-has-invented-psychiatry-to-defend/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/i-myself-spent-nine-years-in-an-insane-asylum-and-i-never-had-the/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [“Insane asylums are deliberate and premeditated receptacles of black magic, and it is not only that doctors encourage magic with their untimely and hybrid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/insane-asylums-are-deliberate-and-premeditated-receptacles-of-black/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/how-hard-is-it-when-everything-encourages-us-to-sleep-though-we-may/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/this-is-why-true-beauty-never-strikes-us-directly-the-setting-sun-is/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/and-what-is-an-authentic-madman-it-is-a-man-who-preferred-to-become/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/the-truth-of-life-lies-in-the-impulsiveness-of-matter-the-mind-of-man/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/all-writing-is-garbage-people-who-come-out-of-nowhere-to-try-and-put/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/squander-your-riches-far-from-this-unfeeling-body-to-which-no-season/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/the-race-of-prophets-is-extinct-europe-is-becoming-set-in-its-ways/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/when-i-think-about-myself-my-thought-seeks-itself-in-the-ether-of-a/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/it-is-almost-impossible-to-be-a-doctor-and-an-honest-man-but-it-is/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/without-sarcasm-i-sink-into-chaos/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

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