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

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


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



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

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



The actor is an athlete of the heart.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.



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.

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.



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

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



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

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



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

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



I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.



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

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



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

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





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The old agility was still present and the passion was undeniable, but it was the wobbling of the gut, the puffing of the cheeks and the profuse sweating that lent the performance its true magic.

The old agility was still present and the passion was undeniable, but it was the wobbling of the gut, the puffing of the cheeks and the profuse sweating that lent the performance its true magic.



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The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.



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A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.



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I would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying.



The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty

The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty



If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.



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