Culture Quote by Antonin Artaud

“Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.” quote by Antonin Artaud — Download Open image

“Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”

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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

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“This is why a tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome. No, van Gogh was not mad, but his paintings were bursts of Greek fire, atomic bombs, whose angle of vision would have been capable of seriously upsetting the spectral conformity of the bourgeoisie. In…

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“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with…

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“Insane asylums are deliberate and premeditated receptacles of black magic, and it is not only that doctors encourage magic with their untimely and hybrid therapies, it is that they practice it. If there had been no doctors there would never have been patients, no skeletons of the diseased dead to butcher and flay, for it is through doctors and not…

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How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet…

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This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

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And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in…

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The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to…

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All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their…

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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.

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The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories,…

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