Antonin Artaud Quotes

Where there is a stink of shitthere is a smell of being.

Antonin Artaud

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• When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Eating

• Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • World
  • Different
  • Question

• I would never walk off any show.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Never
  • Show
  • Walk

• I never liked you, and I always will.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Funny
  • Always

• Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Quality
  • Human
  • Creativity

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Language

• People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • American
  • Top
  • Hat

• I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Done
  • Think
  • Cleaning

• It's not the time to look for excuses.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Look
  • Excuses

• They had learned how to listen for the sense of the meeting, not the voice of the loudest. They had learned that they must judge each time whether obedience was necessary and right, or misplaced and wrong. They had learned that the act of violence is the act of weakness, and that the spirit’s strength lies in holding fast to the truth.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Violence

• Creativity for me is religious.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Religious
  • Creativity

• Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Literature

• Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Why
  • Art

• My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Dog
  • Dumb

• One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Commitment

• It is after these rare calls that I experience the only moments of depression from which I ever suffer, and then I am angry at myself, a well-nourished person, for allowing even a single precious hour of life to be spoil: by anything so indifferent. That is the worst of being fed enough, and clothed enough, and warmed enough, and of having everything you can reasonably desire—on the least provocation you are made uncomfortable and unhappy by such abstract discomforts as being shut out from a nearer approach to your neighbour's soul; which is on the face of it foolish, the probability being that he hasn't got one.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Experience
  • Angry
  • Depression

• Southern conservatives care about government's moral stance but don't mind when it spends freely on behalf of their constituents. Western conservatives, by contrast, are soft-libertarians who want government out of people's way on principle.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • People
  • Mind
  • Moral

• It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Men
  • History

• When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Long
  • Live

• Where there is a stink of shitthere is a smell of being.

  

  Antonin Artaud