"Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence,……" — Antonin Artaud
"Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness."
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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 Cruelty Quotes
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids…
— Margaret Atwood
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they…
— William Blake
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have…
— George W. Bush
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The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they…
— George W. Bush
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion,…
— Samuel Butler
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
— Samuel Butler
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls…
— George Clooney
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