More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
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.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
Open your mind and let the pictures out
what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
Language is a virus from outer space.
Paranoia is just having the right information.
