I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
... not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me. — 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
I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my… — 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
When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself… — 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 life we lead is a front for all which the frightful criminal filthymindedness of some of us has left us. A… — 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 Image
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
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 Image
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