James Douglas Morrison, dit Jim Morrison [ d͡ʒɪm ˈmɔɹɪsən], né le 8 décembre 1943 à Melbourne et mort le 3 juillet 1971 à Paris, est un chanteur et poète américain, cofondateur du groupe de rock américain The Doors, dont il fut membre de 1965 à sa mort.
Sex-symbol provocant au comportement volontairement excessif, devenu une véritable idole du rock, mais aussi intellectuel engagé dans le mouvement du protest song, en particulier contre la guerre du Viêt Nam, il ne revendique toutefois aucune idée politique. Attiré par le chamanisme, on lui attribue une réputation de « poète maudit » que sa mort prématurée, à Paris, dans des circonstances mal élucidées, transforme en légende, notamment fondatrice de ce qui est connu sous le nom de Club des 27.
Le culte que lui vouent ses fans éclipse cependant une œuvre poétique d'une grande richesse[réf. souhaitée] que Morrison lui-même a pu considérer comme sa principale activité, au moins à partir de l'été 1968.
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“Les films sont des collections d'images mortes auxquelles on donne une insémination artificielle.”
Films are collections of pictures which are given articial insemination.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969
Cinema derives not from painting, literature, sculpture, theater, but from ancient popular wizardry. It is a contemporary manifestation of an evolving history of shadows, a delight in pictures that move, a belief in magic. Its lineage is entwined from the earliest beginning with Priests and sorcery, a summoning of phantomas. With, at first, only slight aid ofthe mirror and fire, men called up dark and secret visits from regions in the buried mind. In these seances, shades are spirits which ward off devil.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969
“Tout jeu contient l'idée de mort.”
All games contain the idea of death.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969
Cinema is the most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated with blood.
Caligula wished a single neck for all his subjects that he could behead a kingdom with one blow. Cinema is this transforming agent. The body exists for the sake of the eyes; it becomes a dry stalk to support these two soft insatiable jewels.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (The Lords : Notes on Vision), 1969
It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on whithout any eyes. The spectator cannot exist whithout it. It insures his existence.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969
You can enjoy the life from afar. You may look at things but not taste them. You may caress the mother only with the eyes.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969
“L'attrait du cinéma se trouve dans la peur de la mort.”
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969
“La division des hommes en acteurs et spectateurs est le fait central de notre temps.”
The cleavage of men into actor and spectators is the central fact of our time.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969
Each film depends upon all others and drives you on to others. Cinema was a novelty, a scientific toy, until a sufficient body of works has been amassed, enough to create an intermittent other world, a powerful, inifite mythology to be dipped into at will.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969
“Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride.”
Source: The Lords and the New Creatures
"The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)" on the albums L. A. Woman (1971) and An American Prayer (1978)
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision
"The End; <i>Live in New York</i>" (1970), "The End; Live at The Hollywood Bowl" (1968)
"Waiting for the Sun" on the album Morrison Hotel (1970)
An American Prayer (1978)
"Light My Fire" (1967). Because Jim Morrison sang this as a breakthrough hit for The Doors and was the group's primary songwriter, this is often mistakenly thought to have been written by him. It was actually written by guitarist Robby Krieger, as were some other songs including "Love Her Madly," "You're Lost Little Girl" and "Touch Me" (as well as some other songs on the Soft Parade album). The second verse of the song, however, was written by Morrison.
Misattributed
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The New Creatures
As quoted in When You're Strange (2009) by Tom Dicillo
“Do you dare
deny my
potency
my kindness
or forgiveness?”
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The New Creatures
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision
“Take an Indian home to lunch.”
When asked how the USA should celebrate the Bicentennial, as quoted in Avant Garde magazine (March 1968)
"Five to One" on the album Waiting for the Sun (1968)
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision
“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.”
"The End" from The Doors (1967)
" Always a playground instructor, never a killer running to two young girls freedom and enterprize
"Break on Through (To The Other Side)" from The Doors
“(Windows work two ways, mirrors one way.)
You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.”
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision
“This is it
no more fun
the death of all joy
has come.”
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The New Creatures
"Break on Through (To The Other Side)" from The Doors (1967)
An American Prayer (1978)
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision
