Those who live, live off the dead.

- Antonin Artaud

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world…

- Antonin Artaud

Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where…

- Antonin Artaud

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 th…

- Antonin Artaud

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

- Antonin Artaud

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

- Antonin Artaud

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

- Antonin Artaud

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

- Antonin Artaud

Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exerci…

- Antonin Artaud