Quotes by Artaud, Antonin

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

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Le >>

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into >>

Quotations about Theater

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting >>

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get t >>

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or ha >>

Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other's bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.

Artaud, Antonin