"It is almost impossible to be a doctor……" — 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 same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius."
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Antonin Artaud
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59 Quotes by Antonin Artaud
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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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