Malcolm Mclaren Quotes

One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.

Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.

I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's great. I'm not one of them. I love tackling roles and I love theater, but filming, I don't get it. It seems mind-numbing to me.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

I love Paris - it's one of my favorite cities - and so to shoot a video in Paris was a dream come true.

When I went to Paris, I had a lot of ideas about it that were formed in the sort of ether that flows about if you watch too many recent Woody Allen movies or took French classes as a kid. I was certainly full of those.

I enjoy walking through Nolita and Chinatown, watching the people and the buildings, browsing through shops and stopping at little cafes for a cup of coffee or glass of wine.

I love Los Angeles, and I've secretly always wanted to do a song about Los Angeles, but it's a hard thing to pull off.

I go out every day in Paris.

I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.

Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

I certainly think I have aspects of Paris in me.

We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

I like Chicago. It's a great city. It's always fun to revisit it.