''A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.''
Aldous Huxley
''An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.''
Friedrich Nietzsche
''Friends can help each other. 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. That's what real love amounts to-letting a person be what he really is.''
Jim Morrison
Photographer. Leo Kroonen.
It was a morning of 1991. Serge Gainsbourg's just died. I was at my grandfather's place. We ran together to get this special edition of Liberation. There was a posthumous interview of Serge Gainsbourg inside. I wanted to get it at any rate. It is still hung on the wall at my parents place's bedroom.
''Is the cinema more important than life?''
Francois Truffaut
"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."
Woody Allen.
Still behind the scenes!
''No one's serious at seventeen.
-- On beautiful nights when beer and lemonade
And loud, blinding cafes are the last thing you need
-- You stroll beneath green lindens on the promenade.
Lindens smell fine on fine June nights!
Sometimes the air is so sweet that you close your eyes;
The wind brings sounds--the town is near--
And carries scents of vineyards and beer. . .''
Arthur Rimbaud.
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
Joseph Campbell
Primo Levi.
"First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
And there was no one left to speak out for me."
Pasteur Martin Niemoller, in Dachau.
The seer letter
To Paul Demeny
Charleville, 15 May 1871
''I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer.
The Poet makes himself a seer by a long, gigantic and rational derangement of all the senses.
All forms of love, suffering, and madness. He searches himself. He exhausts all poisons in himself and keeps only their quintessences. Unspeakable torture where he needs all his faith, all his super-human strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the one accursed--and the supreme Scholar!-- Because he reaches the unknown! Since he cultivated his soul, rich already, more than any man! He reaches the unknown, and when, bewildered, he ends by losing the intelligence of his visions, he has seen them. Let him die as he leaps through unheard of and unnamable things: other horrible workers will come; they will begin from the horizons where the other collapsed!''
Arthur Rimbaud.