Quotes by Artaud, Antonin

It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is ob >>

You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the >>

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invente >>

Quotations about Mental Illness

There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social >>

It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had t >>

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. >>

It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.

Artaud, Antonin