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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Antonin Artaud
Pain, Work, Writing
Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.497, Univ of California Press

I 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 Artaud
Book, Writing, Reality
Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.59, Univ of California Press

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

Antonin Artaud
Writing, Pigs, People
Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.85, Univ of California Press

[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis.

Antonin Artaud
Art, Writing, Brutality

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