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23rd April 2013

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All writing is filth.
— Antonin Artaud, The Theatre and Its Double

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12th April 2013

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In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
—  Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double

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26th May 2012

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The Theatre which is in no thing, but makes use of everything – gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness – rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.
— Antonin Artaud, The Theatre and its Double 

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24th May 2010

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Violent, concentrated action is like lyricism; it calls forth supernatural imagery, a bloodshed of images, a bloody spurt of images inside the poet’s head as well as in the audience’s.
— Antonin Artaud, The Theatre and Its Double (via cendrars)

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