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Antonin Artaud quotes: All writing is pigshit.

All writing is pigshit.

Antonin Artaud quotes: In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

Antonin Artaud quotes: Those who live, live off the dead.

Those who live, live off the dead.

Antonin Artaud quotes: No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Antonin Artaud quotes: The fixation of the theater in one languagewritten words, music, lights, noisesbetokens its imminent ruin.

The fixation of the theater in one language
written words, music, lights, noises
betokens its imminent ruin.

Antonin Artaud quotes: We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

Antonin Artaud quotes: All writing is filth

All writing is filth

Antonin Artaud quotes: I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

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

Antonin Artaud quotes: I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

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

Antonin Artaud quotes: The actor is an athlete of the heart.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

Antonin Artaud quotes: The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

Antonin Artaud quotes: I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.

I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.

Antonin Artaud quotes: I myself am an absolute abyss.

I myself am an absolute abyss.

Antonin Artaud quotes: Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

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

Antonin Artaud quotes: Everything is going badly because at this moment the morbid conscience has an essential interest in not recovering from its own sickness.

Everything is going badly because at this moment the morbid conscience has an essential interest in not recovering from its own sickness.

Antonin Artaud quotes: Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

Antonin Artaud quotes: I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

Antonin Artaud quotes: Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

Antonin Artaud quotes: There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel

Antonin Artaud quotes: I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

Antonin Artaud quotes: We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud quotes: To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

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

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

Antonin Artaud quotes: Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Antonin Artaud quotes: It is the very reason-for-being of language and grammar that Iunhinge.

It is the very reason-for-being of language and grammar that I
unhinge.

Antonin Artaud quotes: The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

Antonin Artaud quotes: Actors are athletes of the heart.

Actors are athletes of the heart.

Antonin Artaud quotes: I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.

I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.

Antonin Artaud quotes: We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

Antonin Artaud quotes: I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

Antonin Artaud quotes: Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

Antonin Artaud quotes: You are quite unnecessary, young man!

You are quite unnecessary, young man!

Antonin Artaud quotes: There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

Antonin Artaud quotes: All true feeling is in reality untranslatable. To express it is to betray it. But to translate it is to dissimulate it.

All true feeling is in reality untranslatable. To express it is to betray it. But to translate it is to dissimulate it.

Antonin Artaud quotes: Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination,

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination,

Antonin Artaud quotes: All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Antonin Artaud quotes: In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.

In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.

Antonin Artaud quotes: Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Antonin Artaud quotes: Life consists of burning up questions.

Life consists of burning up questions.

Antonin Artaud quotes: I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

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

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

Antonin Artaud quotes: It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Antonin Artaud quotes: Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

Antonin Artaud quotes: A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt ...

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt ...

Antonin Artaud quotes: Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

Antonin Artaud quotes: I have never written except to fix and perpetuate the memory of these cuts, these scissions, these ruptures, these abrupt and bottomless falls.

I have never written except to fix and perpetuate the memory of these cuts, these scissions, these ruptures, these abrupt and bottomless falls.

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

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

Antonin Artaud quotes: All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

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

Antonin Artaud quotes: I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

Antonin Artaud quotes: The theater is the only place in the world where a gesture, once made, can never be made the same way twice.

The theater is the only place in the world where a gesture, once made, can never be made the same way twice.