Barricades Quote by Antonin Artaud

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

— Antonin Artaud

“This is why a tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would…

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Antonin Artaud

“Insane asylums are deliberate and premeditated receptacles of black magic, and it is not only that doctors encourage magic with their untimely and hybrid…

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Antonin Artaud

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather…

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Antonin Artaud

When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are…

— Antonin Artaud