"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"
-Dr. Seuss
Massive Myspace Layouts collection from Pyzam.com
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness"
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"The path of excess leads to the tower of wisdom"
- William Blake
"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not"
-Epicurus
Brad Stewart's sculpture "In Case of Emergency, Break Heart" all drug paraphernalia in the sculpture has been used in Stewart's past drug addictions up until his sobriety in 1996, it represents the heart overcomes the darkest parts of the being
For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.
The Book of Matthew
xxiii. 27
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have...Greatness!
-Aleister Crowley
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner, and wink your eye at some homely girl.
-The Epitaph of American social critic H.L. Mencken also known as "The Sage of Baltimore"
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or your wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland"
But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent—the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free
-H.L. Mencken
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one
- Chuck Palahniuk
1.Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.
2.After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
3.The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."
4.Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
5.Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple.
6."If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written:
" 'He will command his angels concerning you,
and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone."
7.Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test."
8.Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
9."All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me."
10.Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only."
11.Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.
-Book of Matthew
Chapter 4 verses 1-11
"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them"
- Andy Warhol
Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...
-Marquis de Sade
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
-Marcel Duchamp
"I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away"
-Heath Ledger(April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008)
Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition - Cristiano Banti's 1857 depiction of Galileo Galilei struggle against roman church persecution,
interesting enough Galileo did believe in God and in the Bible, but due to the Roman Church's fear of heresy at the time, they imprisoned him for his defense of heliocentrism "A.K.A. The Earth revolves around the Sun" Theory
"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter"
-Aleister Crowley
"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I never met a man so unknowledgeable, I could not learn something from him
-Galileo Galilei
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
-Book of Jeremiah
Chapter 17 verse 9
Spengler's theory on the inevitable doom of the western culture and society in the Post WWI world
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"
- Willy Wonka quoting from Arthur O'Shaughnessy's "Ode." in the film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"
Gottfried Helnwein's "Beautiful Victim I", 1974...Gottfried is a Freakin Magician!
Pharmakos:
in Greek religion, a human scapegoat used in certain state rituals. In Athens, for example, a man and a woman who were considered ugly were selected as scapegoats each year. At the festival of the Thargelia in May or June, they were feasted, led round the town, beaten with green twigs, and driven out or killed with stones.
The term "pharmakos" later became the term "pharmacos" which refers to a poisoner, a magician, or a sorcerer. A variation of this term is "pharmacon" meaning either a magical substance or drug. From this, the modern term "Pharmacology" emerged.
-Extracted from The Encyclopedia Britannica
"I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway" -Syd Barrett
Red Dragon
Silence of The Lambs
Hannibal
BASEketball
Crash
Jesus Christ Superstar
Monster
The Great Mouse Detective
City of God
Begotten
Old School
Se7en
The Departed
Shrek
Requiem for a Dream
Cube
Four Brothers
Flowers in The Attic
The Frog Prince (performed by The Muppets)
Nightmare Before Christmas
Resivor Dogs
The Machinist
The Lion King
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Batman Begins
Batman
Batman Returns
American History X
The Exorcist
Small Soldiers
Taxi Driver
Alice in Wonderland
Freaks
Dodgeball
Quills
The Omega-Man
Southpark: Bigger Longer and uncut
The Emperor's New Groove
El Topo
Nil by Mouth
Euro-Trip
Lost Highway
The Last Temptation of Christ
Scarface
50 First Dates
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Saw I & 2
The Wall
Goodfellas
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
From Hell
Road Trip
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Aladdin
The Holy Mountain
Monster's Ball
The Wedding Singer
The Unusual Suspects
A Clockwork Orange
and just about everything by Tim Burton, Quintin Tarintino, or Oliver Stone... Thers's a whole bunch but mainly Drama, Comedy, and of course HORROR ...
"The Last Supper"
By The Late Great William Blake
Blake's 1799 artistic interpretation of the Eucharist
"The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it"
-P. B. Medawar
"That's what I see when I look in the mirror
Regardless of whether I'm not a bestseller
I'm a first class spitter
The literal literature ripper
Painting pictures for intelligent listeners" - Canibus in "Indibisible"
"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum"
-Havelock Ellis
"The Midnight Mickey" by the wizard of contemperary art Gottfried Helnwein
I am Rip Van McVeigh
Southpark, The Simpsons, Goosebumps Series, Family Guy, HOUSE, Nip/Tuck (when it was on), Smallville, Malcom in The Middle, King of The Hill, Death Note, The Wayans Bros. Unsolved Mysteries, Angel, Futurama, Gangland, The George Lope Show, War at Home, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Spider-Man, Action League Now, Rocko's modern life, The FBI Files, The Angry Beavers, Cold Case, The 70's Show, Doug, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, Fairly Oddparents, First 48, MADE...
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history
- Oliver Stone
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
"My brain is the key that sets me free."
-Harry Houdini 1874-1926
Magician, Escapologist, Spiritualists Investigator, Film Producer, Actor, Amateur Pilot
I am Sirkus McHenny
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter(~not what you think its is lol,its an interesting read though~)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Justine/The Misfortunes of Virtue by Marquis de Sade
Daybreak by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Covert War Against Rock By Alex Constantine
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Originally I was forced and bound to read it by my English professor, but soon I developed a fondness for the book)
Pills-A-Go-Go By Jim Hogshire
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Libido for the Ugly by H. L. Mencken
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
The Stratagem and other Stories by Aleister Crowley
The Cat in The Hat by Dr. Seuse
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi & Curt Gentry
On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Decline of The West by Oswald Spengler
The 120 Days of Sodom by The Marquis de Sade
A whole bunch of Goosebumps books lol
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe,
The Carnivals of Life and Death by James Shelby Downard
Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Voluptuous Panic:The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin by Mel Gordon
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
Beyond Good & Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain
At least those are some that come to mind.
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free" -Jim Morrison
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad"
- Salvador DalÃ
The King And Queen Surrounded By Swift Nudes by Marcel Duchamp, influential icon on Post-WWII western art and early pioneer of The Dada art movement
"You cannot make mystical picture without Violence...Terrible things, Beautiful things go together" -Alejandro Jodorowsky "The Father of The Midnight Movies" and famed Director of cult classics as "The Holy Mountain" and "El Topo" films about Religous and Human exploitation.....ics :*)
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"
-John F. Kennedy
"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together"
-Petrarch
"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
-William Blake
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
- Dr. Seuss
I am The Arch Bishop of Dada
Jesus, My parents: who sacrificed themselves every single day to deserve eveything they have and provide for a son who doesnt always get it,
Hannibal Lecter
Friedrich Nietzche
Spider-Man
The Marquis de Sade
Gottfried Helnwein
H.L. Mencken
Lewis Carroll
Oliver Stone
Sideshow Bob
John Lennon
David Fincher
Galileo Galilei
Ra's Al Goul
Penn & Teller
Edward Norton
Salvador Dali
Willy Wonka
Andy Warhol
Chuck Palahniuk
John F. Kennedy
Alessandro Cagliostro
Jim Morrison
Oscar Wilde
Ghandi
Agent Alpha
William Blake
Kenneth Elton Kesey
Stanislav Szukalski
Brian Warner
Aleister Crowley
Mat Stone & Trey Parker
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Scar
Takashi Miike
Trent Reznor
Tim Burton
Nicholai Ginovaef
Tom Wolfe
Tyler Durden
Niccolò Paganini
and above all else my family and friends who I don't deserve but i get to have them anyways lol..
Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
- Lewis Carroll
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
-John Lennon
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"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern"
-Alfred North Whitehead
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that"
-G. H. Hardy
"When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who Do"
-William Blake
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