The theater, 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 ArtaudThe theater, 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 ArtaudWe do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
Antonin ArtaudIn our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
Antonin Artaud