I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide — Antonin Artaud
Th head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation — Antonin Artaud
Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. — Antonin Artaud
When we speak the word “life,” it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know — Antonin Artaud
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined — Antonin Artaud
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. — Antonin Artaud
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence — Antonin Artaud
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. — Antonin Artaud