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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 languagewritten 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
The actor is an athlete of the heart.
— 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
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
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
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
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
