Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
He wasn’t supposed to die,’ he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.Neither are you.Neither am I.
We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
Why can’t I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the
Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don’t abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book.
We didn’t have to talk then, and that is real friendship. Never uncomfortable with silence, which, in its welcome form, is yet an extension of conversation.
He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin.
He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.
I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.
I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself.
I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea.
It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).
It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.
All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms.
I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one
Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.
I don’t fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future.
Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
I wanted to cry so bad, but my tears are inside. A blindfold keeps them there. I can’t see today. Patti, I don’t know anything.
Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.
He recognizes voices within silence. (of Max Sebald)
I paced while he slept, ricocheting like a dove skidding the lonely confines of a Joseph Cornell box.
And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indolent poppy balanced behind the ear of Baudelaire.
A real prison breakfast” I said.”Yeah, but we are free.”And that summed it up.
He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. “This one has the magic,” he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.
I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
Bringing good news is imparting hope to one’s fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
The thing is, it’s not uncool to worry about people who seem like they’re going on the wrong path. There’s nothing cool about being self-destructive.
It’s not uncool to worry about people who seem like they’re going on the wrong path. There’s nothing cool about being self-destructive.
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
I’ve said this over and over, but I’ll say it a million more times – I’m concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we’re losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.
I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.
People wouldn’t know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.
Truthfully, I don’t really think of myself as a photographer. I don’t have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who’s spent their life devoted to photography.
My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills… So my parents always struggled.
What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn’t have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that’s startling or is so poignant.
Good news doesn’t necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one’s fellow man.
The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
My mom loved rock n’ roll. My father hated it. We couldn’t play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.
My mom loved rock ‘n roll. My father hated it. We couldn’t play it when he was around.
I’m a human being, I’m a friend, I’m a mom, I’m a writer, and I’m an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I’m just a person.
I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn’t vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.
What I wanted to do in rock ‘n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock ‘n’ roll was asleep.
I didn’t love Jim Morrison ’cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.
You can’t change the world you can’t fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you’re brushing your teeth. You can do small things.
To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It’s freedom.
I’m not afraid of terrorism at all. I’m afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.