"A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of……" — Antonin Artaud
"A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . ."
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59 Quotes by Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud has 59 quotes on this site.
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know…
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium…
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact…
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Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your…
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By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my…
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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -…
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
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There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly,…
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It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves…
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More Calm Quotes
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action…
— Abigail Adams
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I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.
— Roseanne Barr
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I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.
— Martha Beck
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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so…
— Kate Adie
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As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself…
— Jo Brand
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
— Michael Caine
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
— Vannevar Bush
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
— Lord Byron
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
— Willa Cather
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A calm environment is for after I finish work.
— Lee Child
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we…
— Nhat Hanh
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