Quote by Antonin Artaud
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or inv

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

Other quotes by Antonin Artaud

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. – Antonin Artaud

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Morning
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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. – Antonin Artaud

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Tyranny
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. – Antonin Artaud

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Poetry
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An inventor is a man who looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world. – Alexander Graham Bell

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The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. – Sholem Asch

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Creativity

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. – Nnamdi Azikiwe

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Creativity

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. – Brian W. Aldiss

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Creativity

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. – Hermann Hesse

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My old teachers definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. – Thom Gunn

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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. – Andre Malraux

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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