Skip to content

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

— Brion Gysin

Another quote →

Topics

Writing

More quotes by Brion Gysin

I view life as a fortuitous collaboration ascribable to the fact that one finds oneself at the right place at the same time.

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

I may write only what I know in space: I am that I am.

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

I Am the Artist when I am Open. When I am closed I am Brion Gysin.

All Brion Gysin quotes →

You may also like

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

Suman Pokhrel

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Brion Gysin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.