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Antonin Artaud Quote: “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.”

51. “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

Antonin Artaud Quote: “It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.”

52. “It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.”

53. “We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.”

— Antonin Artaud

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

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

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “To confront the metaphysics I have created for myself, in accordance with the void I carry within me.”

55. “To confront the metaphysics I have created for myself, in accordance with the void I carry within me.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “And when we tell ourselves we have reached the paroxysm of horror, blood and flouted laws of poetry that consecrates revolt, we obliged to advance still further into an endless vertigo.”

56. “And when we tell ourselves we have reached the paroxysm of horror, blood and flouted laws of poetry that consecrates revolt, we obliged to advance still further into an endless vertigo.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “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.”

57. “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

Antonin Artaud Quote: “In the manifested world, metaphysically speaking, evil is the permanent law, and what is good is an effort and already one more cruelty added to the other.”

58. “In the manifested world, metaphysically speaking, evil is the permanent law, and what is good is an effort and already one more cruelty added to the other.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.”

59. “There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.”

60. “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

Antonin Artaud Quote: “The cinema implies a total inversion of values, a complete upheaval of optics, of perspective and logic. It is more exciting than phosphorus, more captivating than love.”

61. “The cinema implies a total inversion of values, a complete upheaval of optics, of perspective and logic. It is more exciting than phosphorus, more captivating than love.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.”

62. “I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.”

63. “I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.”

64. “And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “I know that I believe in ETERNAL LIFE, and that I believe here in its entire meaning. I regret to live in a world where witches and wizards hide, and moreover, where there are so few true wizards.”

65. “I know that I believe in ETERNAL LIFE, and that I believe here in its entire meaning. I regret to live in a world where witches and wizards hide, and moreover, where there are so few true wizards.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “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.”

66. “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.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “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.”

67. “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.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “All writing is filth.”

68. “All writing is filth.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “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.”

69. “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

Antonin Artaud Quote: “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.”

70. “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

Antonin Artaud Quote: “I have never written except to fix and perpetuate the memory of these cuts, these scissions, these ruptures, these abrupt and bottomless falls.”

71. “I have never written except to fix and perpetuate the memory of these cuts, these scissions, these ruptures, these abrupt and bottomless falls.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “Everything is going badly because at this moment the morbid conscience has an essential interest in not recovering from its own sickness.”

72. “Everything is going badly because at this moment the morbid conscience has an essential interest in not recovering from its own sickness.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “The extreme point of mysticism, I hold it now in the real and in my body, like a toilet broom.”

73. “The extreme point of mysticism, I hold it now in the real and in my body, like a toilet broom.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “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.”

74. “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

Antonin Artaud Quote: “I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.”

75. “I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.”

76. “We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “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 nastiness.”

77. “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 nastiness.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.”

78. “However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.”

79. “Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “You are quite unnecessary, young man!”

80. “You are quite unnecessary, young man!”

— Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud Quote: “Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.”

81. “Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.”

— Antonin Artaud

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