6 quotes by Antonin Artaud

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

Language

4.8 · 41 votes · 162 reads

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

Creativity

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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.

Despair

4.8 · 26 votes · 179 reads

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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.

Insanity

3.7 · 29 votes · 183 reads

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When we speak the word ''life,'' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Life

3.8 · 31 votes

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Art and Culture
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies u
4.6 · 64 votes · 184 reads
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