The right to an arbitrary vision of the world is the most sacred, the most inalienable right of man. Art only proclaims out loud this too often forgotten right.

– Claude-Edmonde Magny

The attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots.

– Walt Whitman

I come to free the words

The words are free to come

I come freely to the words

The free come to the words

– Brion Gysin

I spoke at a forum up in Provincetown, and when somebody in the audience asked me if I didn’t think an artist should affirm values, I shrieked back that everybody affirmed values: parents, teachers, ministers, editorial writers, government officials – and the artist was the only one who should and could destroy values.

– Norman Mailer

If you want to say something, there is only one solution: say it.

– Jean-Luc Godard

Doubts that cloud the faith of an era will excite its geniuses.

– Frederick Morton

An advance in art is considered to take place to the degree that art divests itself of the characteristics of art.

– Harold Rosenberg

Contemporary artists of any period are always concerned with breaking down pre-conceptions imposed by the academicians of what art should be based on what it has been in the past, in order to remain true to their own times.

– Toby Mussman

These people who talk about individuality the most are usually the ones who object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will think just what they want to think and everybody will probably be thinking alike.

– Andy Warhol

Jesus looks like young Robert Mitchum or Enrique high on tea looking at you thru the smoke and saying “Hombre, man, this is the end.”

– Jack Kerouac