Antonin Artaud

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence read more

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.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being

Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being

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

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

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then read more

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.