123 Quotes by Antonin Artaud

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

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

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.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.

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

Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

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.

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.