- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAntoine Marie Joseph Artaud
- Height5′ 7¼″ (1.71 m)
- Antonin Artaud was born on September 4, 1896 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was an actor and writer, known for The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Lucrèce Borgia (1935) and Napoléon Bonaparte (1935). He died on March 4, 1948 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France.
- The Museum of Modern Art (NYC) had a showing of his drawings and paintings, composed while he was a patient in a mental institution, where he was encouraged to draw and paint as part of his therapy.
- Surrealist poet, stage actor, movie writer and movie actor.
- He didn't want any church burial but his family decided to do it against his will. Only actress María Casares and a few other friends tried to oppose.
- Antonin Artaud, screenwriter of The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928), was enraged with Germaine Dulac, the female director who had made the film. At the première, that took place at the Salle des Ursulines, Artaud and a friend of his began to shout to each other: "Who did this film ?" "Madame Germaine Dulac did !" "And who is madame Dulac ?" "She's a cow!".
- French singer Charles Trenet said Artaud was "a permanent suicide".
- Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
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