Quotes by Artaud, Antonin

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

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respe >>

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language tha >>

Quotations about Madness

One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but >>

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is >>

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom! >>

And what is an authentic madman? It is 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. 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. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.

Artaud, Antonin