Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

• Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one's particular life path might appear to one's self or others at any given moment.

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  Spiritual, Being Yourself, Art

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• People say, ''I'm a woman trapped in a man's body'' or ''I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,'' but I say ''I'm trapped in a body.''

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  Men, People, Body

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• And when in doubt, be extreme.

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  Doubt, Extremes, When In Doubt

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• Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

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  Parent, Identity, Written

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• After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we touch rather than explore, we lust rather than adore.

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  Believe, Lust, Too Much

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• All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

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  Way, Psychedelic, Great Music

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• the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

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  Responsibility, Enemy, Our Actions

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• Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was that their lives were their art. It wasn't something they did separately. Reading biographies of artists of that kind was what was fascinating to me, more than the stuff they made. We became convinced that life and art is really the same thing.

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  Art, Teenager, Reading

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• An exact science is one that admits loss.

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  Loss, Exact Sciences

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• Industrial culture? There has been a phenomena; I don't know whether it's strong enough to be a culture. I do think what we did has had a reverberation right around the world and back.

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  Strong, Thinking, Culture

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