"I call for actors burning at the stakes,……" — Antonin Artaud

"I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames."

— Antonin Artaud

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59 Quotes by Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know…
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium…
When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact…
Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your…
By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my…
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -…
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly,…
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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