A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is.
I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.
Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality. . . Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection. . . Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.
If I had to, I would ask first of all: why do things move in your work? It's the most simple, and also the most complicated, question. And I answer: things move because if they didn't move, they might move.
To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete. . . with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
Some days I'm very lazy, and some days I'm more inspired. I've got things I've had since I was fifteen-I don't throw anything away. I prefer to give it to a friend so I can wear it again. . . The way I dress doesn't necessarily have to do with fashion, or what is current, or what is in right now, it's more about rediscovering things.
None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.
Listen, if you choose to believe nothing else that transpires here, believe this: your body does not have a soul; your soul has a body, and souls never, ever die.
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.