The following list is quotations used by The Manic Street Preachers as part of artwork on their records. They do not all express my own views, but I think you'll find them thought provoking.
"I am a little man and this is a little
town but there must be a spark in a little
man that can burst into flame."
J. Steinbeck
"I talk to God but the sky is empty."
Sylvia Plath
"I have nothing to offer the world except my own confusion."
Jack Kerouac
"When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the riches and diversity of his existance.
When power corrupts poetry clenses"
John F. Kennedy
"Progress is a comfortable disease."
E. E. Cummings
"Maybe I am not very human. What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house."
Edward Hopper
"The architect, by the relationships which he creates he wakes in profound echos, he gives us the measure of an order which we feel to be in accordance with that of our world. He determines the various movements of our heart and understanding; it is then we experience the sense of beauty."
Le Corbusier
"Regard all art critics as useless and dangerous."
Manifesto of The Futurists
"I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body but whatever it was that made her body live."
Confucius
"If I can shoot rabbits then I can shoot Facists"
Anon; Spanish Civil War
"When freedom exists there can be no state"
Unknown
"I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincal town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad..."
Philip Larkin
"O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my god."
Rimbaud
"Modern capitalism, organising the reduction af all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any other spectacle than that of ourown alienation."
Kotanyi Vaneiger, 15 no.6, 1961
"Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me... most of my heroes ain't appeared on no stamp."
Chuck D
"In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien,a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home of promised lands."
Carnus
"Deprive man of his life lie and you rob him of his happiness."
Ibsen
"The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchial structure remains always the same."
George Orwell
"The tradegy of it all is that nobody sees the lack of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition."
Henry Miller
"This one's for Brian Jones and all the other dinosaurs that got kicked out tha' band."
Sleaze Sisters
"It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christanity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots, but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exist."
Nietzche
"Junk is the ideal product. The ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client."
William Burroughs
"To all who pass that they may see, Rock'n'Roll was a part of me."
Nik Cohn
"The pictures I contemplate painting would constitutea halfway state and an attempt to point out the direction of the future- without arriving there completely."
Jackson Pollock
"Tomorrow is too late."
Unknown
