The World Motivation
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.
“Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.”
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.