Quotes

“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.” Jim Morrison

“Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.” Jim Morrison

“Where's your will to be weird?” Jim Morrison

“I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.” Jim Morrison

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.” Jim Morrison

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” Jim Morrison

“I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.” Jim Morrison

“Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.” Jim Morrison

“Drugs are a bet with your mind.” Jim Morrison

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.” Jim Morrison

“This is the strangest life I've ever known.” Jim Morrison

“I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.” Jim Morrison

“Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.” Jim Morrison

“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.” Jim Morrison

“Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.” Jim Morrison

“Music inflames temperament.” Jim Morrison

“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.” Jim Morrison

“Film spectators are quiet vampires.” Jim Morrison

“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.” Jim Morrison

“When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.” Jim Morrison

“I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.” Jim Morrison

“Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.” Jim Morrison

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” Jim Morrison

“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper

“More of me comes out when I improvise.” Edward Hopper

“The only real influence I've ever had was myself.” Edward Hopper

“I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.” Edward Hopper

“I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.” Edward Hopper

“I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.” Edward Hopper

“I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.” Edward Hopper