Quotes by Artaud, Antonin

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

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gest >>

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for >>

Quotations about Theater

To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and act >>

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to >>

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involvi >>

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.

Artaud, Antonin