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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

->''[[CharacterCatchphrase Like I always say]], destruction is the purest form of art.''
-->-- '''Kato''', a.k.a. Rainbow Parakeet, ''Anime/AstroBoy''

->''People are worth nothing compared to my dolls! They're all shallow, depraved, ugly creatures! Dolls are perfect creations: the come to life or capture death by my hand! Their fate is chosen by me! I AM THEIR GOD!''
-->-- '''Kyogetsu Ujie''', ''Anime/HellGirl''

->''[[MadBomber Art is a bang!]]''
-->-- '''Deidara''', ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''

->''"Flowers, lives, love... They are most pristine when they are at the brink of being destroyed. As an artist... I yearn for the sight of this academy's final moments as it teeters on the brink of destruction. This I shall impress into my memory."''
-->-- '''Hitomi Ishigami''', ''Manga/RosarioToVampire''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Audio Plays]]

->'''Damien Pierson:''' It seems your friend the Doctor isn't quite the art lover I hoped he would be.\\
'''Ace:''' ''If you've hurt him--''\\
'''Damien Pierson:''' Don't be stupid, girl! I'm not going to hurt him... not yet. The final work would be sadly diminished if we wasted all our materials on the sketches.\\
'''Ace:''' Sketches?\\
'''Damien Pierson:''' All great works begin with sketches... but they are just pale echoes of what is still to come.\\
'''Ace:''' And what's that, then, Damien? What have we got to look forward to? ''More'' [[SpookyPainting hallucinogenic paintings]]?\\
'''Damien Pierson:''' My sculpture! My masterpiece! [[LargeHam The piece that will assure my place among the greatest artists in history!]]
-->-- ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho021DustBreeding Dust Breeding]]''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]

->''"Behold my architecture: [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper bricks of viscera,]] with knife as trowel..."''
-->--'''Sir William Gull''', ''ComicBook/FromHell''

->''"That's why some days he's [[DependingOnTheWriter a mischievous clown and others a psychopathic killer.]] He has no real personality. [[MultipleChoicePast He creates himself each day.]] He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theater of the absurd."''
-->-- '''Dr. Ruth Adams''' on the Joker, ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth''

->''"[[ToThePain I know it's uncomfortable at first... feels like you're drowning]]. Then the plaster starts to give off a really intense heat. It may seem unbearable. [[ApologeticAttacker I'm sorry for that]]. But it doesn't last. Only as long as it takes... It's okay. I know what I'm doing. I got an "A" star for art at high school."''
-->-- '''Nicole Ryan''', ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}: City Of Demons''

->''"Poor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}. Accused of fiddling [[WhileRomeBurns while Rome burnt]]. For another people, the charge might be that he did nothing but play his harp in the hour of disaster. That is not the crime for us good Romans. The crime was that he was Emperor and playing a harp at all. Oratory. War. Law. Fit for an Emperor. [[KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect Not music. Not acting. Not art.]] And Nero wanted to be an artist ''and'' a gladiator. Killing as economics is Roman... not killing as art. In Julius' last life, I would not have had such thoughts. Perhaps I am Nero in this life, and not Julius... At least I am no Caligula."''
-->-- '''Lucifer (Circa 455 AD)''', while playing on a harp made of corpses, ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine''

->''"With resources inherited from Lady Shaa and the help of acolytes desperate to aid me in my work, I designed a great engine. It was a weapon, of course, powerful enough to burn the city to ash. But anyone can make a weapon. To be worthy of the Force, my design had to be so much more...And it was. I would begin to destroy the city, let the heat and the ash and the flames rise up. And at the moment the people understood their imminent doom, I would pour the Force into my engine and use it to stop the flow of time. All those minds, reacting as one. Pain and fear on a scale the Galaxy had never known. Frozen like insects in sap for everyone to see...Forever. An eternal shrine to the Dark Side. My masterpiece."''
-->-- '''Darth Momin''', ''ComicBook/DarthVaderDarkLordOfTheSith''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]

->''"I do what other people only dream: I make art until someone dies. See? Hehehehehehe. I am the world's first fully-functioning homicidal artist."''
-->-- '''The Joker''', ''Film/Batman1989''

->''"This guy must have 500, maybe 600 bodies down there. Stuck up on the walls like some psycho version of the Art/SistineChapel!"''
-->-- '''Darry Jenner''', ''Film/JeepersCreepers''

->''"Think beyond splattering blood on canvas. When our masterpiece is complete and the coroner's report is back in it will read 'the cause of death... art.'"''
-->-- '''Alexander''', ''Film/MurderParty''

->'''Luigi Largo:''' You're the street physician carving flesh sculptures!\\
'''Pavi Largo:''' Paint your ass like Rambrandt! Ha! You like that?
-->-- ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]

->The criminal is the creative artist; the detective [[PoliceAreUseless only the critic.]]
-->-- ''[[Literature/FatherBrown The Blue Cross]]''

->''It was my ambition to create a crime nobody could solve. But no artist, I realize now, can live on art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition that cannot be gainsaid. I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone see just how clever I have been.''
-->-- '''U.N. Owen''', ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''

->''[[{{Biomanipulation}} Remaking]]'s art, you know. Sick art. [[AdmiringTheAbomination The imagination it takes!]] I've seen Remade crawling under the weight of huge spiral iron shells they retreat into at night. Snail-women. I've seen them with big squid tentacles where their arms were, standing in river mud, plunging their suckers underwater to pull out fish. And as for the ones made for the gladiatorial shows...! Not that they admit that's what they're for. Remaking's creativity gone bad. Gone rotten. Gone rancid.''
-->-- '''Derkhan''', ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation''

->''Your life may be brief, but celluloid will make you live forever! I will enjoy making art out of you. [[FalseReassurance And don't worry]]: you can always be [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness replaced by a younger actor]]...''
-->--'''[[PrimaDonnaDirector Marvin Maximus Mogul]],''' ''INTER Active Secret Agent File: Orbit Of Fear''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]

->''"Marcus is an expert. (Some say 'artist,' but I've never been very comfortable with labels.) He's a [[TortureTechnician bloody king of torture]], he is! Humans, demons, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg politicians]], makes no difference. They say he [[WroteTheBook invented some of the classics]], but he won't tell me which ones."''
-->-- '''Spike''', ''Series/{{Angel}}'', "[[Recap/AngelS01E03InTheDark In the Dark]]"

->''"Using Creator/GilbertAndSullivan for genocide is ''very'' creative. Me, I'm more of a jazz artist. Like Music/MilesDavis with 12-gauge."''
-->-- '''Gunter''', ''Series/BulletInTheFace''

->'''Trin-E:''' I think he'd look good with a dog's head.\\
'''Zu-Zana:''' Or maybe no head at all! That would be ''so'' outrageous.\\
'''Trin-E:''' And then we could stitch your legs to the middle of your chest.\\
'''Zu-Zana:''' ''Nothing'' is too extreme.
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf Bad Wolf]]"

->''"I've had twenty years to come up with the perfect trick. It's going to be my masterpiece; my Mona Lisa; my ''Series/BreakingBad'' Season Five! (They gave me cable in prison so I'd stop killing the guards.)"''
-->-- '''The Trickster''', ''Series/TheFlash2014''

->'''Firefly:''' You still haven't told us how you're going to take over the underworld.\\
'''Jerome Valeska:''' Who says I wanna do that? I'm an artist. I just wanna paint the town crazy.
-->-- ''Series/{{Gotham}}''

->''"[[SlashedThroat I open his throat from the outside]] to access the trachea and expose the vocal chords. I open his throat from the inside using the neck of a cello. Powder on the wound, rosin from a bow. I wanted to ''play'' him. I wanted to create a sound. ''My'' sound."''
-->-- '''Will Graham''', exploring the mindset of a killer, ''Series/{{Hannibal}}''

->'''King:''' You'll never get off the ship.\\
'''Lenore:''' It will become a floating tomb, drifting through space with the soul of the great Karidian giving performances at every star he touches.
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing The Conscience of a King]]"

->'''Dr. Crusher:''' ''[observes sketches]'' You should be drawing, not killing people.\\
'''Finn:''' I can do both.
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E12TheHighGround The High Ground]]"

->''"We're his canvas, his blocks of marble. With us he practices his ghastly art."''
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E23TheThaw The Thaw]]"

->''"A good death is a death of art, a bad one is the death of a butcher. You, Boris, are a butcher. I am an artist."''
-->-- '''Commissar Vassiloff''', ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E29TheJeopardyRoom The Jeopardy Room]]"

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]

->''"Hitler was a vegetarian and a painter. So he must have been, 'I can't. Get. The Fucking. Trees--''Damn!'' I will kill ''everyone in the world!''[='=]"''
-->-- '''Creator/SuzyEddieIzzard'''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]

->In the modern nights, the Toreador ''[[EvilCounterpart antitribu]]'' have similar interests as their Camarilla siblings, only their appreciation for the aesthetic has grown to include pain, savagery, cruelty and depravity. How is a rose, sonnet or portrait any more enrapturing than a masterfully-executed flaying, reason the Toreador ''antitribu''? What is beauty, if not subjective?
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Guide to the Sabbat''

->In the total darkness of his hellish fortress, the ancient Vampire paints on [[GenuineHumanHide human skins]], creating terrifying scenes of a [[VillainWorld world where there are no living]], where the dead walk the land and withered, undead trees blight the bleak landscape. [[MadOracle Melkhior claims that he paints visions of the future]], glimpses of a time that is to come. Perhaps his visions are true - and the known world is doomed to the horrific existence of unlife.
-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Vampire Counts (5th Edition)''

->Ramhotep's skill in undeath is as great as it was in life, and the [[LivingStatue statues]] that receive his attentions are restored to their former majesty, striding into battle as if they were carved only yesterday. He works relentlessly to maintain his masterpieces, and such is the likeness between these effigies and the gods they represent that the ancient pantheon blesses them and protects them in battle. With this army of walking statues, Ramhotep intends to [[RevengeBeforeReason pull down the cities of those who defiled his work]], [[KickTheDog slay the inhabitants of these uncultured civilizations]], and construct his greatest monument to date: a vast mausoleum built from [[NothingButSkulls the bones of his foes]].
-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Tomb Kings Army Book (8th edition)''

->Like all [[TortureTechnician Haemonculi]], [[MadScientist Urien]] has an undying enthusiasm for crafting symphonies of pain. He carries a variety of strange weapons to war, including a gauntlet that can inject his own highly mutagenic ichor into his foes and a blade that can kill with the slightest scratch. But the true weapons of this demented fiend are the repugnant creations that shamble out from his flesh-pens; a menagerie of horrors that strains the sanity of all who behold it. Blood-splattered [[TheIgor Wracks]] and [[TheBrute towering Grotesques]] stalk between [[PastVictimShowcase living sculptures]] that moan and stagger as rapacious Haemovores writhe in the gore beneath. At the head of this gruesome procession comes Rakath himself, theatrically conducting the carnage about him like a ringmaster at some hellish circus.
-->--''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Codex - Dark Eldar (5th ed)''

->The Masque of the Reaper's Mirth takes the [[TheTrickster Laughing God]]'s bloody humour to an extreme. Every battlefield is a gory canvas upon which they can paint their masterpieces of death. It is not enough to simply kill their enemies: they must be [[MakeAnExampleOfThem made examples]] of [[CruelAndUnusualDeath in the most extravagant manner]]. The [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Palace of Crystal Bones, Hall of Echoed Screams and Fountain of Crimson Tears]] are all works of the Reaper's Mirth. Because of their penchant for inventive cruelty, the masque attracts a higher proportion of [[MonsterClown Death Jesters]]. These macabre warriors take sardonic pleasure in fighting alongside the Players of a Reaper's Mirth as they enact their performances of genocide and horrific destruction.
-->-- ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Codex - Harlequins''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Theatre]]

->''They say your ship was sinking, John\\
You'd started missing cues\\
They say it wasn't [[UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln Lincoln,]] John\\
You'd merely had a slew of bad reviews''
-->-- "Ballad of Booth", ''{{Theatre/Assassins}}''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]

->''"Hahahahaha! Did you see that?! That right there is true art! What a stunning explosion! Art is detonation!"''
-->-- '''Crimm, The Explosive Artiste''', ''VideoGame/LuminousAvengerIX''

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[[folder: Glitz! Glamour! So what if a few people have to die? That's show business, baby! ]]
''
-->--'''Mettaton''', ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}''

->''"When [[Creator/PabloPicasso Picasso]] became bored of painting people, he started representing them as cubes and other abstract forms. The world called him a genius! I've spent my entire surgical career creating the same tired shapes ''over and over again:'' the upturned nose, the cleft chin, the ample bosom. Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could do with a knife what that old Spaniard did with a brush?"''
-->-- '''Dr. Steinman''', ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}''

->''I want to take the ears off, but I can't.\\
I hop, and when I hop, I never get off the ground.\\
It's my curse, my eternal curse!\\
I want to take the ears off but I can't!\\
It's my curse! It's my ''fucking'' curse!\\
I want to take the ears off! ''Please!'' Take them off! PLEASE!''
-->-- "The Wild Bunny," by '''Sander Cohen''', ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}''

->''Critical Killing\\
Is an art unto itself\\
And I am {{Creator/Rembrandt|VanRijn}}''
-->-- '''[=Zer0=]''', ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}''

->''Urist [=McArtist=] cancels task: taken by mood.\\
Urist [=McArtist=] looses a roaring laughter, fell and terrible!\\
(''Urist [=McArtist=] drags Urist [=McVictim=] into the nearest butcher shop or tanner shop, brutally murders [=McVictim=] and makes a random object out of the leather or bone.'')''
-->-- A possible scenario in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''

->'''Deacon:''' Look at the brushwork. And the bold use of color. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Oh, and how]] ''[[BreadEggsMilkSquick batshit crazy]]'' [[DeadpanSnarker the painter was, don't forget that.]]\\
'''Piper:''' Huh, are these abstract- [-''[[SarcasmFailure oh God]]''-].\\
'''Curie:''' For medical research, autopsy and the study of the human body is important. [[HumanResources But this?]] This is ''sick''.\\
'''[=MacCready=]:''' [[SeenItAll Oh. Great.]] Thanks for the NightmareFuel.\\
'''Cait:''' I dunno, [[NightmareFetishist I kind of like these paintings.]] Feels good knowin' someone out there is [[BrokenBird more miserable than me.]]
-->-- Companion responses to [[Creator/HPLovecraft Pickman's]] [[ShoutOut Gallery]], ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}''

->''"All architects before me only knew how to build... create... only I am bold enough to destroy! Let's start... with that little school over there!"''
-->-- '''Mr. Mechanical''', ''VideoGame/FreedomForce''

->''"I've sold almost a hundred million books. That number baffles even me; I'm not what you would call a populist. Murder, rape, incest, infanticide, sick twisted and cruel characters suffering similar fates; monsters - human and inhuman - haunting desolate spaces; a world controlled by misanthropes torn asunder, reduced to bodily fluids... And still people keep reading. [[CrapsackWorld Says a whole lot about the state of the world, doesn't it?]] My head isn't a good place for a visit, but you read one of my novels, that's exactly where you're going."''
-->-- '''Sam Krieg''', ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->''"Most people think art is about beauty. It's not. Beauty is merely a side effect, one of the many impossible results. Art is about the process. It's about getting your hands dirty. Wield the brush as if it were a blade. CUT into the tender flesh of inspiration. PEEL away the distractions, and any notion of complacency or security. Until all that's safe and conventional is TORN OUT in BLOODY CHUNKS. Dig DEEP into the GUTS and GORE of your creative being, so you can touch the raw NERVE of your PSYCHE, and SCOOP OUT the sheer MEANING. The sheer... beauty.\\\
You... [[YoureInsane probably think I'm mad]]. Well, that's alright. Madness, much like art, [[TheyCalledMeMad is in the eye of the beholder.]]"''
-->-- '''The Artist''', ''VideoGame/LayersOfFear''

->''"Revulsion is instinctual... and instinct is a powerful level to work toward. To evoke it, a glorious accomplishment! Revulsion is a striking colour on my palette. I see wonderment in your dead eyes: you long to wield [[LovecraftianSuperpower such power]] [[MagicPlasticSurgery as deftly as I]]!"''
-->--'''Andrei the Tzimisce,''' ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''

->''"Art requires a certain... cruelty."\\
"Death should never be quick. It should be an opera."\\
"They will dance, they will sing, they will '''die!'''"\\
"Each bullet is a song."\\
"Art should terrify."\\
"I do what others will not. That alone is innovation."\\
"This would be easier if blood came in more colours."\\
"My work asks questions, it never has answers."\\
"I have risen from the filth and muck. I am the lotus blossom. I am beauty."\\
"They called me mad. '''All''' artists are mad."''
-->--'''Jhin''' from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', in his own words.

->''"This is the photo that took one of my eyes, but gifted me with vision. The moment of death, captured like a fly in amber. A life ends and a flower of flesh and blood is born. I realised the beauty in destruction, I was eager to share my new work with the world. Neophytes. Philistines. Fools. They feared what they could not comprehend, were determined to stop me. Some consider this new world horrific, for me it is a world of beauty, full of pure creations that is limited to my imagination. A world whose very fabric I can shape but where can I go from here? She is the key, the path to ultimate power. She is the brush, blood is my paint and this world is the canvas. My name is Stefano Valentini and art is in the eye of the beholder."''
-->--'''Stefano Valentini''', ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin2''

->''"Art is suffering! I don't expect a man of your limited education to understand! Without darkness, there is no light! Don't you understand anything? She died so millions of others could experience truth through my art! To understand pain, it must be administered as well as felt."''
-->--'''Peter Dreyfuss''', ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''

->''"Do you know what it means to be a killer? Think of the most profound thing you've ever done, the most beautiful thing you've ever created. And I promise you it's '''''nothing''''' compared to watching the life bleed out of someone, to see the fear in their eyes, to feel them pawing at you for release, to hear them pleading, begging. THAT'S true art. That's what you have to be; an artist. I've left my mark on the world, have '''''you'''''?''"
-->-- '''Manny Sherman''', ''[[VideoGame/TheDevilInMe The Devil In Me]]''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Webcomics]]

->''"'Torture' is such an ''[[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord inelegant]]'' word. I'm an artist. [[GroinAttack Their testicles are my canvas.]]"''
-->-- '''Revolver Ocelot''', ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]

->''The Joker isn't a criminal. And he isn't even really a terrorist. He's more like a... terror-philosopher. And ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' is his ''[[Literature/TheRepublic Republic]]''. He commits crimes like grad school students write dissertations, planned out to direct the reader — or, in his case, society — to their way of thinking. His endgame isn't to rule Gotham, it's to [[InTheirOwnImage create more people like him.]] He's like a self-replicating idea-virus.''
-->-- [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-review-dark-knight-3/ "Cinematic Batmanology"]]

->"UTILIZE the canvas! Expose the people to Art reality. Art is for the people & people are for Art. Mourn the loss as a cochineal or spent paint.
-->-- [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/notes-towards-a-manifesto One of many different manifestos]] from the "art terrorist" group [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/are-we-cool-yet-hub Are We Cool Yet?]], as cataloged by the ''Website/SCPFoundation''

->''"What is the fucking point of making work that [[BrownNote kills anyone who looks at it]]? The whole damn point of art is to send a message! How the hell can your audience get anything from a piece when it rips their heads off and shoves it in their asses or some shit? That’s not art, it’s fucking bullshit!”''
-->-- '''Jack "The Critic" Dawkins''', "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/everyone-knows Everyone Knows]]", ''Website/SCPFoundation''

->''"She also took to painting the walls again, but now she would walk down the halls naked and dripping with black paint, just dripping all over the fucking carpet, before pressing her flesh into the walls, leaving behind impressions of her body everywhere. These paintings were of seductive poses, of power poses. Poses that intimidated and marked her territory. Poses that seemed to watch you as you walked through the halls. She bent and contorted her body to leave haunting faces on the walls and other unsettling abstract imagery."''
-->-- '''Corin Deeth III''' on [[spoiler: Belladonica]], ''Podcast/KakosIndustries''

->''Matt Johnson sees life as a movie where he’s the star-auteur, always performing, or thinking how to best frame himself for the imaginary audience, effectively treating the universe as [[Creator/SpikeLee a Matt Johnson Joint]]...Parlaying that modern disease into a [[MetaGuy self-aware]] school shooter, borrowing ''[[Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye Catcher in the Rye]]'' from the school library 'cos it’ll be funny,' is a genius move, especially when any would-be maniac is fully aware — often, as a motive — that infamy awaits, with 24 hour news using body-counts like a high score, and where any actual docu-footage would be ghoulishly judged on the [[DutchAngle Dutch camera angles]] and soundtrack choices.''
-->--'''Stuart Millard''' [[http://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/my-top-20-movies-of-2013-the-list-part-2/ on]] ''The Dirties''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Real Life]]

->''Poetry implies either a happy gift of nature or a strain of madness.''
-->-- '''Creator/{{Aristotle}}'''

->"Qualis artifex pereo!" (''"What an artist dies in me!"'')
-->--'''Nero'''

->''A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.''
-->-- '''Creator/AynRand''', ''The Voice of Reason''

->''In 1971 H.H. found a second home at the White House, assigned with G. Gordon Liddy to "the Room 16 project" where [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon the administration]] prepared its crimes. Room 16 marks the high point of H.H.'s career; his art and arts were now perfected. Masterfully, he forged; he burglarized; he conspired. The Shakespeare of the CIA had found, as it were, his Globe Theatre. Nothing was beyond him -- including [[MurderInc tragedy.]]''
-->-- '''Creator/GoreVidal''', "The Art and Arts of E. Howard Hunt"

->''The outermost limit of endeavor is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along....I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.''
-->--'''Creator/LRonHubbard'''

->"I lived in Hollywood and I had all that, the Rolls Royce and the Ferrari and the pad in Beverly Hills. I had the surf board and the [[Music/TheBeachBoys Beach Boys]]... the Music/NeilDiamond...the Music/ElvisPresley's best of bestlies and all them guys. The [[Music/DeanMartin Dean and Martins]] and the {{Music/Nancy Sinatra}}s and the cops and sovereigns, "Will you do it to me? I hear you do it good honey" and all that kind of "Will you come up to my house later?" So I went through all that and I seen that was a bigger prison than the one I just got out of and I really didn't care to go back in prison. See, prison doesn't begin and end at the gate. Prison is in the mind. It's locked in one world that's dead and dying, or it's open to a world that's free and alive."
-->--'''UsefulNotes/CharlesManson'''

->''"When I turned forty, I didn't want to have anything as mundane as a midlife crisis. Instead, I decided to convince my friends and family that I'd gone completely mad. So I became a magician"''.
-->--'''Creator/AlanMoore'''

[[/folder]]

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