Quotes by : Antonin Artaud

All writing is filth

I myself am an absolute abyss.

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

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide....

Before saying anything further about culture, I consider the world is hungry and does not care about....

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that....

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I....

I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every....

If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms,....

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather....

Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c'est notre....