Antonin Artaud Quotes

Art is born of humiliation.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

You need to suffer to be interesting.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative.

Music is a major cornerstone of our success.

For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.

I really just want to be a writer and a storyteller. But maybe pain is one of the things you have to feel in order to be creative.

I'm always better when I'm not doing well, that's when I write good songs.

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

Art never comes from happiness.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.

I feel that my work comes alive all the time.

Every single day, I wake up and take a glimpse of where I am now compared to where I was before, and the work that we have all put in to be in this space. I think of that, and being able to express myself through my art and show up and be present - that's activism, advocacy, and artistry in itself.

Dance keeps me going, and it gives me the energy to remain active in cinema.

Fighting to get up in the morning, fighting to get on stage, fighting to make music that makes people feel good when I don't - that's been a struggle.

There are so many things I want to do, so many things I have to say.

I do a film because at that particular moment, I want to make a film. It is my attempt at moving away from the ordinary.

I don't know which was the first love - music or fashion.

Makeup is an art form for me. It's a form of expression, and it's such a cool way to get my creative juices flowing.