In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
Antonin ArtaudI would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.
Antonin ArtaudThis is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.
Antonin ArtaudWhen we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
Antonin Artaud