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. Antonin Artaud More Quotes by Antonin Artaud More Quotes From Antonin Artaud 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. Antonin Artaud pain angel years Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind. Antonin Artaud caves roots mind Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. Antonin Artaud stage tragedy enough 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 suicide time morning It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which is above all a space to fill and a place where something happens, the language of words may have to give way before a language of signs whose objective aspect is the one that has the most immediate impact upon us. Antonin Artaud impact space giving We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary. Antonin Artaud long-ago one-day death 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 heart men hands I myself am an absolute abyss. Antonin Artaud abyss absolutes If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will. Antonin Artaud self-harm suicidal suicide I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born. Antonin Artaud delirium earth people I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me. Antonin Artaud terror real death If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force. Antonin Artaud consideration magic form I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living. Antonin Artaud affirmation dice truth 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 shadow use moving 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 drug poetry war Life consists of burning up questions. Antonin Artaud burning life Those who live, live off the dead. Antonin Artaud Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness. Antonin Artaud cruelty diligence theatre If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Antonin Artaud together-again suicidal suicide It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation. Antonin Artaud storm climate earth
