Antonin Artaud - Cinema and Reality (French Literature)

...The human skin of things, the epidermis of reality: this is the primary raw material of cinema.  Cinema exalts matter and reveals it to us in its profound spirituality, in its relations with the spirit from which it has emerged.  Images are born, are derived from one another purely as images, impose an objective synthesis more penetrating than any abstraction, create worlds which ask nothing of anyone or anything.  But out of this pure play of appearances, out of this so to speak transubstantiation of elements is born an inorganic language that moves the mind by osmosis and without any kind of transposition in words.  And because it works with matter itself, cinema creates situations that arise from the mere collision of objects, forms, repulsions, attractions.  It does not detach itself from life but rediscovers the original order of things...