Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.More Antonin Artaud quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.More Antonin Artaud quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Antonin Artaud quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.More Antonin Artaud quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.More Antonin Artaud quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]