Jonathan Culver > Quotes

“The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.”
― Jonathan Culver

“Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artists
job to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed, beliefs
shattered. It is the artists job to encourage legitimate, unadulterated, raw thought and
emotion. Art that does nothing new, that simply fills an established role, is not art.
It is a product. A stale, stagnant product of a disgustingly mundane process that has been
done so much it is assumed mandatory. Little different than feces. The last thing the world
needs is to get shittier.”
― Jonathan Culver

“With the manipulation of abstract
symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and,
sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.”
― Jonathan Culver

“If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better.”
― Jonathan Culver

“I write because writing is power. Writing is creation. When you write, you are as a god, a deity wielding his pen like some Harry Potter staff, making whatever you want to happen, happen. By sheer force of will and some clever word placement, I can arrange all of these little symbols together to invoke emotions and ideas at a whim out of whosoever allows me to cast my spell. It does not take a man and a woman to create. It just takes a writer.”
― Jonathan Culver

“I'm a mother fucking human holocaust!”
― Jonathan Culver, Huey Lambert's Walking Nuclear Circus

“In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.”
― Jonathan Culver, Huey Lambert's Walking Nuclear Circus

“i want to bleed ink and shit prose.”
― Jonathan Culver

“i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.”
― Jonathan Culver

“I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones.”
― Jonathan Culver

“Lying to other people isn’t hard. It’s lying
to yourself that’s the trouble.”
― Jonathan Culver

“On this moment Huey’s balls grew three
sizes. By Huey’s estimates, this made them
inhumanly enormous. Ginormous even. In Spanish,
the word for testicles is “juevos”. This is also the
word for eggs. On this moment, Huey’s juevos were
hard boiled.”
― Jonathan Culver, Huey Lambert's Walking Nuclear Circus

“Well I’ve just been thinking, and don’t you
think it’s kind of, well, kind of vain, to decide we
need to make little clones of ourselves when the
worlds already pretty overpopulated. It’s just not
practical and kind of greedy.”
― Jonathan Culver, Huey Lambert's Walking Nuclear Circus

“It's just so quiet out here. Not like the quiet in the house. This is different. This is a quiet you can‟t fight, you can't change. This silence is bigger than you and me, we don‟t cause it. It's like Gods refusal to speak.”
― Jonathan Culver, I am an Island

“I don't deserve progress. I deserve un-progress. I'm just an asshole. I'm not enlightened. I'm an idiot. A grade SS fucking idiot.”
― Jonathan Culver, I am an Island