Antonin Artaud Quotes

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

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.

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.

You are quite unnecessary, young man!

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

[defines a madman as] 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.

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

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

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.

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

All writing is filth

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.

[defines a madman as] 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.