Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896, in Marseille – March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine "little Anthony", and was among a list of names which Artaud used throughout his writing career.. actor playwright poet essayist
Poems are below...
Articles about Antonin Artaud or articles that mention Antonin Artaud.
Here are a few random quotes by Antonin Artaud.
See also: All Antonin Artaud Quotes
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths. Go to Quote / Comment
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. Go to Quote / Comment
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. Go to Quote / Comment
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. Go to Quote / Comment
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything Go to Quote / Comment