Antonin Artaud Quotes

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.... To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

I do my best creating on stage.

A play is a passion.

Music is the soul of language.

So for me, it can be theatre or being in L.A. or in some other part of the world, as long as I can explore storytelling and human connection through storytelling, I'm quite content.

I can't imagine my life without doing theater.

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

Theater is the most important thing in life for me.

I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.

Musicians are not so concerned with language.

Each actor requires a different language.

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

Theatre was always my passion.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

It's all performing; that's what we do in life. We talk, we look, and we hear, and we listen. Your life is a performance.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.