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Brion Gysin Quotes

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

Brion Gysin
Two, People, World
Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.188, Wesleyan University Press

What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

Brion Gysin
Nuts, Doe, Cracks
Brion Gysin (2005). “The Process”, p.174, The Overlook Press

The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?

Brion Gysin
Thinking, Phrases, Poet

I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.

Brion Gysin
Crazy, Real, Night
Brion Gysin (2005). “The Process”, p.77, The Overlook Press

Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?' is all that ever held us here in the first place. Fear. The answer to the Riddle of the Ages has actually been out in the street since the First Step in Space. Who runs may read but few people run fast enough. What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

Brion Gysin
Running, Nuts, Feet
Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.174, Wesleyan University Press

Man is a bad animal.

Brion Gysin
Animal, Men
Brion Gysin (2005). “The Process”, p.12, The Overlook Press

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

Brion Gysin
Writing, Years, Fifty
Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.131, Wesleyan University Press

I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.

Brion Gysin
Fun, Games, Careers
"Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age". Book edited by Jose Ferez Kuri (p. 4), 2003.

The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.

Brion Gysin
Real, Writing, Firsts

You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

Brion Gysin
Two, Nails, Hammers

Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?

Brion Gysin
Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Ian Sommerville (1973). “Brion Gysin let the mice in”, Ultramarine Pub Co

When ya gotta goNow we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder god. We are here to go.

Brion Gysin
Invisible, Fear Of Love, Thunder

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