Antonin Artaud: Quotes about life
Antonin Artaud was French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director. Explore interesting quotes on life.General Security: The Liquidation of Opium (1925)
“I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself”
Source: The Theater and Its Double
Preface: The Theater and Culture
The Theatre and Its Double (1938, translated 1958)
“Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.”
Quoted in the memoirs of Jean-Louis Barrault, The Grenier des Grands-Augustins, pt. 2, Memories for Tomorrow (1972, trans. 1974).
Preface: The Theater and Culture
The Theatre and Its Double (1938, translated 1958)
The Theatre of Cruelty, in The Theory of the Modern Stage (ed. Eric Bentley) (1968).
Lee Jamieson, Antonin Artaud: From Theory to Practice, Greenwich Exchange, 2007, p. 23.