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

— Antonin Artaud

Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (1947)

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French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre direc… 1896–1948

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