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Vote: | All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. |
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Vote: | But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. |
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Vote: | Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. |
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Vote: | Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. |
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Vote: | However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. |
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Vote: | I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. |
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Vote: | No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. |
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Vote: | So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. |
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Vote: | There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. |
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Vote: | Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. |
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Vote: | When we speak the word ''life,'' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. |
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Vote: | With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. |
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Vote: | Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. |
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Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896–March 4, 1948) was a playwright, actor, and director.
In his book Theatre and its Double, Artaud expressed his admiration for Eastern forms of theatre, particularly the Balinese Theatre. He admired Eastern theatre because of the codified, highly ritualized physicality of Balinese dance performance., and advocated what he called a "Theatre of Cruelty". By cruelty, he meant not sadism or causing pain, but rather a violent, physical determination to shatter the false reality which, he said, lies like a shroud over our perceptions. He believed that text had been a tyrant over meaning, and advocated, instead, for a theatre made up of a unique language halfway-between thought and gesture. He also believed that sexual activity, including masturbation, was harmful to the creative process and should be avoided if one hoped to achieve purity in their art.
Antonin Artaud described the spiritual in physical terms, and believed that all expression is physical expression in space. Although he advocated a system of "social therapy" through theatre, Artaud was institutionalized for some time because he was considered insane.
:– Antonin Artaud, The Theatre of Cruelty, in The Theory of the Modern Stage. Edited by E. Bentley. Penguin, 1968, p.66
An outline of Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty #Artaud had a pessimistic view of the world, but he believed that theatre could affect change.
#Remove the audience from the everyday and use symbolic objects to work with the emotions and soul of the audience.
#Attack the audience's senses through an array of technical methods and acting so that the audience would be brought out of their desensitisation and have to confront themselves.
#Use the grotesque, the ugly and pain in order to confront an audience, thereby being cruel to them.
...(more on Wikipedia)
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