We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter. Antonin Artaud More Quotes by Antonin Artaud More Quotes From Antonin Artaud These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of life beyond which the paths of eternity extend. It is truly an eternal separation. They slip their knives into this center where I feel myself a man, they sever those vital ties which bind me to the dream of my lucid reality. Antonin Artaud dream men reality Without sarcasm I sink into chaos. Antonin Artaud chaos sarcasm 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 us. Antonin Artaud reading may beautiful Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination. Antonin Artaud intention determination decision The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin. Antonin Artaud ruins light noise [Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis. Antonin Artaud brutality writing art Actors are athletes of the heart. Antonin Artaud actors athlete heart Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. Antonin Artaud unhappy men world Not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker). Antonin Artaud nails twisted one-day 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. Antonin Artaud creation soul mind Enough, I shall be understood in ten years by people who will be doing what you do today. Then my geysers will be known, my ice floes will be seen, the secret of adulterating my poisons will have been learned, the games of my soul will be revealed. Antonin Artaud ice games years [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. Antonin Artaud mad men ideas How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward. Antonin Artaud eye dream sleep Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Antonin Artaud poet reading way In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it. Antonin Artaud peyote psychedelic men 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. Antonin Artaud nastiness madness asylums And war is wonderful, isn't it? For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step. In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition that could not fail to arise on all sides. Antonin Artaud competition war order A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome. Antonin Artaud faculty investigation would-be It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius. Antonin Artaud doctors humanity men It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior. Antonin Artaud struggle night people
