Art Quote by Jim Morrison

“Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.” quote by Jim Morrison — Download Open image

““Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.””

Jim Morrison

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How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie - people claim they want to be free - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified…

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Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would…

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Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.

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“It's so eternal. As long as there are people, they can remember words and combinations of words. Nothing else can survive a holocaust, but…

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...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

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I am the Lizard King, I can do anything!

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Love cannot save you from your own fate.

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A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be your self.

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