Life Consists Of Burning Up

The Actor Is Merely A Crude Empiricist, A Practitioner Guided By Vague Instinct.

I Abandon Myself To The Fever Of Dreams, In Search For New Laws.

The Actor Is An Athlete Of The Heart.

[nietzsche's] Definition Of Cruelty Informs Artaud's Own, Declaring That All Art Embodies And Intensifies The Underlying Brutalities Of Life To Recreate The Thrill Of Experience ... Although Artaud Did Not Formally Cite Nietzsche, [their Writing] Contains A Familiar Persuasive Authority, A Similar Exuberant Phraseology, And Motifs In Extremis.

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.