Quotes by Artaud, Antonin

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

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

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

Quotations about Colleges and Universities

In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screa >>

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college educati >>

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and im >>

The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. The fault lies with your moldy systems, your logic of 2 + 2 = 4. The fault lies with you, Chancellors, caught in the net of syllogisms. You manufacture engineers, magistrates, doctors, who know nothing of the true mysteries of the body or the cosmic laws of existence. False scholars blind outside this world, philosophers who pretend to reconstruct the mind. The least act of spontaneous creation is a more complex and revealing world than any metaphysics.

Artaud, Antonin