Antonin Artaud Quotes

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.

All true language is incomprehensible