Quotes by Artaud, Antonin

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something >>

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

Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of moralit >>

Quotations about Psychiatry

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a ro >>

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obse >>

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. >>

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.

Artaud, Antonin