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Antonin Artaud was a French playwright, poet, and theatre theorist, considered one of the most important theatre thinkers of the 20th century. His works have had a profound impact on subsequent theatrical movements, particularly his theory of 'Theatre of Cruelty'. Born on September 4, 1896, he passed away on March 4, 1948.

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“The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.”

Men Mind Believe Has Beens Matter Lying Asks Found Concepts Calm Truth Of Life Madmen

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“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.”

Mind Roots Universal Breathe Surrender Abandon Marvelous Caves

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“For the lost are lost by nature, all your ideas of moral regeneration will make no difference, there is AN INNATE DETERMINISM, there is an undeniable incurability in suicide, crime, idiocy, madness, there is an invincible cuckoldry in man, there is a congenital weakness of the character, a castration of the mind.”

Men Mind Ideas Character Lost Differences Moral Crime Weakness Madness Suicide Innate Invincible Determinism Regeneration Idiocy Castration

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“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.”

Mind Soul Creation Detached Flowering Diagrams Dribble

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.”

Thinking Mind Space Moon My Thoughts Of My Mind Balconies Gravitation

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.”

Way Mind Law Race Becoming Europe Court University Borders Prophet Cracks Factories Frozen Minerals Wrapping Law Courts Embalming

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.”

People Writing Trying Mind Goes On Pigs Garbage

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.”

Mind Made States Skins Metaphysics Degeneration

Book:The Theater and Its Double

Source: The Theater and Its Double

“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.”

Mind Use Light Life Is Order Language Sound Break Darkness Theater Theatre Manifestation Scream Gestures Break Through Darkness To Light

Author:Antonin Artaud

About the Author

Born: September 4, 1896
Died: March 4, 1948
Known for: Playwright
Quotes: 99

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