13 Jim Morrison Quotes on Art

Jim Morrison quotes on art

18. Cinema has evolved in two paths. One is spectacle. Like the phantasmagoria, its goal is the creation of a total substitute sensory world. The other is peep show, which claims for its realm both the erotic and the untampered observance of real life, and imitates the keyhole or voyeur's window without need of color, noise, grandeur.

22. Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

32. O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine & dying We live, we die and death not ends it

50. I think there's a certain moment when you're right in time with your audience and then you both grow out of it, and you just have to realize that it's not that you have outgrown the audience, it's just that the audience and you both are too old for that. That has to go on something else, and let the younger people do that.

53. I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

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

65. We are from the West. The world we suggest should be of a new wild West, a sensuous, evil world, strange and haunting. The path of the sun.

78. I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

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

82. Music inflames temperament.

86. The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

97. There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the Doors. [this is a quote from William Blake]

101. Ladies and Gentlemen, money beats soul every time, C'mon! (11/4/69 Takes 13-15)