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“Good is what you like, Evil is what you don’t like.”
-Anton Lavey
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
-Salvadore Dali
"For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
-Francis Bacon
"A man who doesn't love easily, loves too much."
-Agent Dale Cooper [Twin Peaks]
"Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company."
-Lord Byron
"When one subtracts from life infancy, sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence?"
-Lord Byron
"I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike."
-Anton LaVey
"It's hard to be evil in a world that's already gone to hell."
-Anton LaVey
"Death hates being taken for a whore."
-Dom Pomperno [Marquis]
"Man is the only animal in whom the law of self-preservation is enacted after he has willingly subjected himself to the machinations of his destruction."
-Anton LaVey
"I reserve the right to be a lonely man."
-H. L. Mencken
"Never send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls because someone is getting paid to pull the rope."
-Anton LaVey
"Do I look like someone who cares what god thinks?"
-Pinhead [Hellraiser]
"Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
-Phillip K. Dick
"If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use those words."
-Phillip K. Dick
"Insanity is repeating the same behavior, yet expecting different results."
-Albert Einstein
"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
-Albert Einstein
"You'd pay to know what you really think."
-J.R. Dobbs
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars."
-Oscar Wilde
"You can show an idiot the moon, but all they will see is your finger pointing."
-Ancient Chinese Proverb
"I have seen the dark universe yawning, where the dark planets roll without aim- where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or luster or name."
-H.P. Lovecraft
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
-T.S. Eliot
"Be careful... many go astray in the dark; especially when it is so thick you can cut it with a knife."
-Henry David Thoreau
"Revenge is a dish best eaten cold."
-English Proverb
"Any fool with fast hands can take a tiger by the balls, but it takes a hero to keep on squeezing."
-Stephen King
"The sleep of reason breeds monsters."
-Goya
"Death is a mystery. Burial is a secret."
-Stephen King
"Forced intimacy is an ugly thing."
-Nicole Blackman
"Never forget what they did to you and never let them know you remember."
-Nicole Blackman
"Words are tickets to spend time."
-Nicole Blackman
"Life is easy when you don't care about the future."
-Silke Bischoff
"Time doesn't move in a picture."
-Silke Bischoff
"I wanna be everything. I wanna be everywhere. I wanna fuck everyone in the world. I wanna do something that matters."
-Trent Reznor
"I'm not a man, or machine. I'm just something in between."
-Loverboy
"What lies behind us and what lies in front of us pales in comparison to what lies within us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"True art can be described and experienced, never explained. You feel it or not. Wonder does not lead to certitude. It is a state of mind, like being in love."
-Peter de Bolla
"Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a lead role in a cage?"
-Pink Floyd
"Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation."
-Robert Evans
"It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality."
-Virginia Woolf
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
-Jeremiah 17:9
"Flesh is but the glasse that holds the dust."
-George Herbert
"If you know you have an unpleasant nature and dislike people, this is no obstacle to work."
-J.G. Bennett
"I don't like to think of people suffering, but then they do. They breed at such a rate that they are bound to suffer."
-Francis Bacon
"I do believe today modern man wants a sensation, really, without the boredom of its conveyance... or to cut down conveyance so you just give into sensation."
-Francis Bacon
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"No matter how far a jackass travels, it will never return a horse."
-Batou [Ghost In the Shell 2]
"Intellectual excellence is achieved in concert with cataclysmic terror; not in avoidance of it."
-H.P. Lovecraft
"In America, sex is an obsession. In other parts of the world, it is a fact."
-Marlene Deitrich
"To get out of a lie, you must lie again. There is no need to get out of the truth."
-David Kroll
"We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time."
-T.S. Eliot
"The Servant waits, while the Master baits."
-Empress Nympho [History of the World, Part 1]
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-George Orwell
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
"Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker."
-Johnny [Naked]
"Mankind is just a component of the device by which the devil creates itself."
-Johnny [Naked]
"The notion which seems clearest to us is only a shimmer of light between two abysses."
-J.M. Bourgery
"People choose the paths that gain them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort."
-Dr. Gregory House [House M.D.]
"Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity."
-Occam's Razor
"The Five Stages of Grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance."
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross M.D.
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
-Henri Bergson
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
-Victor Hugo
"Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always."
-Dante Alighieri
"Beauty awakens the soul to act."
-Dante Alighieri
"Heat cannot be separated from fire, nor beauty from The Eternal."
-Dante Alighieri
"The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time."
-Dante Alighieri
"My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates."
-Dante Alighieri
"The secret of joy is the mastery of pain."
-Anais Nin
"Anxiety is love's greatest killer."
-Anais Nin
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
-Anais Nin
"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."
-Anais Nin
"I will not be just a tourist, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy."
-Anais Nin
"I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way."
-Anais Nin
"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see."
-Anais Nin
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."
-Anais Nin
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."
-Anais Nin
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
-Anais Nin
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
-Anais Nin
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
-Anais Nin
"The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries."
-Marquis de Sade
"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell."
-Marquis de Sade
"Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced."
-Marquis de Sade
"Never will the intellect's sophistries blot out the soul's impulsions."
-Marquis de Sade
"Goodness is never but a weakness of which the ingratitude and impertinence of the feeble always force honest folk to repent."
-Marquis de Sade
"Work, for the night is coming."
-Edward Gorey
"Many too many alternatives, but no choices."
-Patrick White
"Humankind can only bear so much reality."
-T. S. Eliot
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
-Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."
-Stanislaw Leszczynski
"Meaning is not in things, but in between them."
-Norman Brown
"There is no exquisite beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
-Sir Francis Bacon
"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Artists must lie to show the truth. Politicians lie to cover it up."
-Unknown
"How do you know if something is indestructible, even before it is destroyed?"
-Unknown
"Art is something new that inspires reflection of something familiar."
-Unknown
"To understand and accept one's weaknesses is to truly know strength."
-Anonymous
"If you don't expect something to work, you've already given it reason to fail."
-Anonymous
"Integrity is how you behave when no one is watching but you."
-Anonymous
"Many are happy to stick their nose into your personal life, but very few actually care about the details."
-Anonymous
"God doesn't bless... he just puts you out of your misery."
-Anonymous
"Find your desires, and be free to move forward without hesitation."
-Anonymous
"Too many excuses, not enough sacrifice."
-Anonymous
"There's no lie in a question, only an answer."
-Anonymous
"Philosophy doesn't tell you what to think, only how to think."
-Anonymous
"The virtuous man dreams what the wicked man actualizes."
-Anonymous
"The presence of an observer changes the very nature of that which is being observed."
-Erwin Schroedinger
"The universe has 3 dimensions, but perception reveals unlimited dimensions."
-Sergei Eisenstein
"The junction of two equals a greater product, not their sum."
-Sergei Eisenstein
"Be as you wish to seem."
-Socrates
"Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right."
-Henry Ford
"Keep your words soft and sweet just in case you have to eat them."
-Amish Proverb
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."
-Amish Proverb
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without."
-Amish Proverb
"A task takes as long as it takes."
-Amish Proverb
"Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question."
-Amish Proverb
"A good day is when no one shows up, and you don't have to go anywhere"
-Burt Shavitz
ABOUT THE ARTIST
ROBERT MORRIS is an image maker. For over 20 years, he has built a world-wide reputation of creating stunning imagery through a variety of media including pen & ink, photography, 3D, and digital film compositing.
Robert's artwork has been featured in galleries alongside other notable artists such as H.R. Giger, Clive Barker, and Marilyn Manson, as well as in concerts, commercials, and feature films. Since launching his company "Mechanical Whispers" in 2000, his work has been praised in publications such as Digit, Reel, Creativity, Cthulhu Sex, and Fangoria, as well as being exhibited around the world from Sundance to Cannes, and NYC's Lincoln Center to LA's Hollywood Bowl. His work has been broadcast live on TV for an audience of millions of people during the Grammy Awards, American Idol, The Voice, People's Choice Awards, American Music Awards, and the Billboard Music Awards to name a few. Since 1998, he has made New York City his home.
ZURICH, 2005
SELF PORTRAIT, 2013
There are many creative figures who have been influential to the work of Robert Morris. Fellow artistic influences include M.C. Escher, Gustav Dore, Andreas Vesalius, Albrecht Durer, Zladislaw Beksinski, H.R. Giger, Dan Ouellette, Joel-Peter Witkin, Tim Bradstreet, Edward Gorey, Chris Cunningham, and Matthew Barney. Musical influences range from Nine Inch Nails and Bauhaus to Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Doors, The Cure, Gary Numan, Prick, and C-TEC. But when Robert works, the range of music found playing in his studio can be quite surprising (and sometimes embarrassing). Music is the perfect way to create an ambient mood for any ritual chamber. And the detailed work of Robert's is nothing less than a tedious ritual. In addition to art and music, Robert is also inspired by certain films and books. Directors such as David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Brother's Quay, Jan Svankmajer, Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, and Mamoru Oshii serve as continual inspiration. Writers that stimulate him include Clive Barker, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Marquis de Sade, G.I. Gurdjieff, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Anton LaVey. Most of what influences Robert, though, is the life that surrounds him. Robert has a passion for subway decay, the smell of burning electricity, Jack Daniel's, medical illustrations, soft black puppies, and certainly not least, working in his Brooklyn, NY studio.
FIRST GRADE, 1980
