Inspirationen
„There is no measuring with time
no year matters, and ten years are nothing.
Being an artist means not reckoning and counting
but ripening like the tree which not forces its saps
an stands confident in the storms of spring
without the fear that there may come no summer.
It does come. But it comes only to the patient
who are there, as though eternity lay before them
so unconcernably still and wide.
I learn it daily. I learn it with pain
for which I am grateful.
Patience is everything!“
– Dennis Hopper
„Everything is just station and then bringing forward
to let each impression and each germ of a feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious beyond reach of ones own intelligence
and await with deep humility and patience
the birth-hour of a new clarity
- that alone is living the artists life.“
– Dennis Hopper
“Art too is only a way of living
therefor save yourself from these general themes and seek those which your own everyday life offers you.
Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts, the belief in some sort of beauty.
Describe all these with humble, loving, quiet sincerity
and use to express yourself the things in your environment, the image from your dreams and the object of your memory.”
- Dennis Hopper
„Ask yourself in the stillest moment of your night: Must I write?
Delf into yourself for a deep answer
and if this should be affirmative,
if you may meet this ernest question with a strong an simple „I must“,
then build your life according to this necessity. “
– Dennis Hopper
„And even if you where in some prison,
the walls of which let non of the sounds of the world come to your senses,
would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memory?“
– Dennis Hopper