Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings

I don't feel like reading anything but novels of adventure, which does not mean that they are devoid of intellectuality: they have more of it than other novels, but it is intellectuality in action.

For the mind to find all its power, the con­crete must serve as the mysterious. Every striking idea, every memorable utterance, the words by which one later recognizes the writer, are always the result of a compromise between a current of intelligence that comes out of him and an ignorance that comes over him, a surprise, an obstacle.

— jacques riviere to artaud

We are appearing because we believe we are responding to something. We are real. This excuses us from being necessary.