If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.
Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.
It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain. . . one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.
I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.
I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.
There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.
If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair.
Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them
I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.
Drinking in a honky tonk, just kicking hippies asses and raising hell.
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had
People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.