Jim Morrison citations

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“Le cinéma ne dérive pas de la peinture, de la littérature, de la sculpture, du théâtre, mais d'une ancienne et populaire tradition de sorcellerie. C'est la manifestation contemporaine d'une longue histoire d'ombres, un ravissement de l'image qui bouge, une croyance en la magie. Son lignage est couplé depuis sa plus lointaine origine avec les prêtres et la sorcellerie, une convocation des spectres. Avec, au début, l'aide modeste du miroir et du feu. Les hommes ont conjuré des ombres et secrètes visites des régions enfouies de la pensée. Dans ces séances, les ombres sont des esprits qui éloignent le mal.”

“Tout jeu contient l'idée de mort.”

“Le cinéma est le plus totalitaire des arts. Toute énergie, toute sensation se fait sucer jusqu'au crâne, érection cérébrale, le crâne bouffi de sang.
Caligula souhaitait un cou unique pour tous ses sujets afin qu'il puisse décapiter un royaume d'un seul geste. Le cinéma est cet agent transformateur. Le corps n'existe que pour les yeux, il devient une tige sèche qui porte ces deux joyaux mous et insatiables.”

“Il est faux de penser que l'art ait besoin d'un spectateur pour être. Le film continue même sans yeux. Le spectateur ne peut exister sans le film. Qui assure son existence.”

“Tu peux jouir de la vie de loin. Tu peux regarder les choses mais ne pas les goûter. Tu peux caresser la mère seulement des yeux.”

“L'attrait du cinéma se trouve dans la peur de la mort.”

“La division des hommes en acteurs et spectateurs est le fait central de notre temps.”

“Tout film est dépendant des autres films et y renvoie. Le cinéma était une innovation, un jeu scientifique jusqu'à ce qu'un nombre suffisant d'œuvres ait été amassé, assez pour créer un autre monde intermittent, une mythologie puissante et infinie dans laquelle plonger à volonté.”

“That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act”

“When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder… the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.”

“Well, I've been down so Goddamn long,
that it looks like up to me.”

“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”

“Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss”

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

“You live you die and death not ends it.”

“The Gate is Straight, Deep and Wide; Break On Through to the other side.”

“Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.”

“Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.”

“Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful
comes death on a strange hour
unannounced, unplanned for
like a scaring over-friendly guest you've
brought to bed
Death makes angels of us all
& gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's
claws”

“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 experience.”

“The Night is young
& full of rest
I can’t describe
the way she’s dress’d
She’ll pander to some strange
requests
Anything that you suggest
Anything to please her guest.”

“Lying on stained wretched sheets with the bleeding virgin,
we could plan a murder…or start a religion.”

“The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…”

“There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.”

“Once you make peace with authority you
become an authority”

“Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal”

“Death Makes Angels of us all.”

“Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.”

“There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theatres to recall the sensation of rain.”

“What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down”

“O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives”

“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.”

“Give me songs
to sing
and emerald dreams
to dream

and I'll give you love
unfolding.”

“I touched her thigh
and death smiled”

“The subject says "I see first lots of things which dance — then everything becomes gradually connected."”

“I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through.”

“Or society places a supreme value on control -- hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks "primitive cultures" and prides itself on supression of natural instincts and impulses.”