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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 Picture Quote #1

I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration Picture Quote #1

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection Picture Quote #1

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones Picture Quote #1

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh Picture Quote #1

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human Picture Quote #1

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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him Picture Quote #1

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair Picture Quote #1

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat Picture Quote #1

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others Picture Quote #1

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Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships Picture Quote #1

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 certain great nastiness Picture Quote #1

I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born Picture Quote #1

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It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius Picture Quote #1

By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality Picture Quote #1

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames Picture Quote #1

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate Picture Quote #1

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself Picture Quote #1

Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations Picture Quote #1

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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 certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life Picture Quote #1

I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him Picture Quote #1

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt Picture Quote #1

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose Picture Quote #1

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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 do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration (Antonin Artaud Quotes) Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection (Antonin Artaud Quotes) Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones (Antonin Artaud Quotes) Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh (Antonin Artaud Quotes) We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human (Antonin Artaud Quotes) There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him (Antonin Artaud Quotes) So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair (Antonin Artaud Quotes) No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell (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 (Antonin Artaud Quotes) I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat (Antonin Artaud Quotes) Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others (Antonin Artaud Quotes) Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols (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 (Antonin Artaud Quotes) How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward (Antonin Artaud Quotes) Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships (Antonin Artaud Quotes) 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 certain great nastiness (Antonin Artaud Quotes) I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born (Antonin Artaud Quotes) It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius (Antonin Artaud Quotes) By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality (Antonin Artaud Quotes) And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames (Antonin Artaud Quotes) The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate (Antonin Artaud Quotes) However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself (Antonin Artaud Quotes) Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations (Antonin Artaud Quotes) 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 certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths (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 (Antonin Artaud Quotes) Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life (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 (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 (Antonin Artaud Quotes) This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose (Antonin Artaud Quotes)

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