“The problem is to make space speak, to feed and furnish it, like mines laid in a rock which all of a sudden turns into geysers and bouqets of stone.” (p. 98)
“From the point of view of the mind, cruelty signifies rigour, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination . . . There is no cruelty without consciousness.” (p. 101-102)
From Antonin Artaud The Theatre and Its Double, (noted Sept. 14, 1993)