Poetry Is A Dissociating And Anarchic Force

I Myself Am An Absolute Abyss.

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.

The Idea Of A Detached Art, Of Poetry As A Charm Which Exists Only To Distract Our Leisure, Is A Decadent Idea And An Unmistakable Symptom Of Our Power To Castrate.

The Actor Is Merely A Crude Empiricist, A Practitioner Guided By Vague Instinct.

All True Language Is Incomprehensible, Like The Chatter Of A Beggar's Teeth.