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All writing is pigshit. — Antonin Artaud

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

Those who live, live off the dead. — Antonin Artaud

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

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

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

All writing is filth — Antonin Artaud

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

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

The actor is an athlete of the heart. — Antonin Artaud

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

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

I myself am an absolute abyss. — Antonin Artaud

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Actors are athletes of the heart. — Antonin Artaud

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

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

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

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

You are quite unnecessary, young man! — Antonin Artaud

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life consists of burning up questions. — Antonin Artaud

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

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

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

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

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

Without sarcasm I sink into chaos. — Antonin Artaud

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

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose. — 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 minds are pigs. — Antonin Artaud

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

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