Famous Quotes | It is not a certain conformity...

It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after van Gogh’s stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation. - Antonin Artaud
Attribution: Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), French theatre producer, actor, theorist. repr. in Selected Writings, pt. 33, ed. Susan Sontag (1976). Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (1947).

Categories: Actor, Theatre Producer, Theorist, Van Gogh, Vincent

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