art & writing

quotes mostly the beats, bands, authors, poets, artists of all sorts

[oncanvas]

Inflammatory Essays, Jenny Holzer, 1979-82

Ten offset lithographs on colored papers Each: 43.2 x 43.2 cm (17 x 17 in.)

[quotemadness]

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[quotemadness]

“You should love for no reason.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[sunsetquotes]

“I am too young and I’ve loved you too much.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[quotemadness]

“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[quotemadness]

I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing.

Jack Kerouac (via quotemadness)

[violenthippie-1991]

[stealingthesolstice]

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m okay… it’s a decent day

Hunter S. Thompson

[stealingthesolstice]

It never got weird enough for me

Hunter S. Thompson

[stealingthesolstice]

When the going gets weird, the weird turns professional

Hunter S. Thompson

[stealingthesolstice]

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride…and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well…maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

Hunter S. Thompson

[stealingthesolstice]

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

Hunter S. Thompson

[kittenplan]

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the “good life”, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

Hunter S. Thompson (via kittenplan)

[mysharona1987]

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only living thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.

Hunter S. Thompson (via mysharona1987)

[scientificphilosopher]

I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.

Hunter S. Thompson (via scientificphilosopher)

[stealingthesolstice]

It's not a trip at all

You Showed Me, The Turtles

[stealingthesolstice]

Gettin' so high Off in the sky, that's where I was last night

She's My Girl, The Turtles