Quote by Antonin Artaud
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a begga

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggars teeth. – Antonin Artaud

Other quotes by Antonin Artaud

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. – Antonin Artaud

Category:
Genius
Read Quote

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

Category:
Creativity
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Language
category

Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool. Such men have the quaint habit of discovering things fifty years after all the world knows about them — because they read only their own language. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) #bilingual #trilingual

Category:
Language

I like the word “indolence.” It makes my laziness seem classy. – Bern Williams

Category:
Language

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words…. Be not the slave of Words… – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh, 1

Category:
Language

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kunst and Alterthum

Category:
Language

Random Quotes

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. – Madeleine LEngle

Category:
Art

Despite Arizonas remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan. – Jane D. Hull

Category:
environmental

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. – Anne Lamott

Category:
alone

After all, what is your hosts purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself if that were their sole purpose, theyd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. – P. J. ORourke

Category:
Women