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Antonin Artaud Quotes
«No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.»
«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»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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delirium, frightened, madman, misunderstood, prepared, shining, solution, strangulation
«The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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breaking point, break through, express, gestures, light touch, manifestations, no touch, of sound mind, precisely, re-create, re-created, recreate, recreates, recreating, rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, rediscovers, screams, sounds, theater, theaters, theatre, the point, The Theatre
«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.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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center, fluctuate, fluctuating, fragile, referred to, referring, refers, refers to, surface, surface of
«Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.»
«Those who live, live off the dead.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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The Dead
«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.»
«But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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calculus, deranged, deranging, differential, differential calculus, inanely, obscene, ordeals, precession, precession of the equinoxes, quantum, scientist, unalterably