More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
