Quotes by Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

[After Easy Rider] I couldn’t get another movie, so I lived in Mexico City for a couple of years. I lived in Paris for a couple of years. I didn’t take any photographs, and then I went to Japan and saw a Nikon used. I bought it, and I just started, like an alcoholic. I shot 300 rolls of film. That was the beginning of me starting again.

Couple

Japan

Years

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

Art

Names

Taken

Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody’s going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be out on the street selling apples and pencils and they’re still going to be buying paintings for this money, so I don’t know what’s going on in this world.

Apples

Buying

People

Dialectic logic is there’s only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.

Hate

Logic

Only Love

Easy Rider’ was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

Country

Easy Rider

Motorcycle

I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It’s not been a bad life.

Artist

Fun

Photography

I didn’t see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price’s house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack. He had an amazing collection. I didn’t know people painted abstractly, I thought I was just doing something wholeheartedly.

House

People

Saws

I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.

Cost

Made

Photograph

I think not being a professional photographer was actually a blessing, because it allowed me to shoot things professional photographers wouldn’t shoot, or wouldn’t try or attempt to shoot without lights. So I did all my stuff natural and without lights.

Blessing

Light

Thinking

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don’t crop them, I don’t manipulate them or anything. So they’re like found objects to me.

Found Objects

Painting

Thinking

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Acting

Actors

Apples

Art

Artist

Believe

Blessing

Book

Brother

Buying

California

Cities

Cost

Country

Couple

Dean

Drinking

Easy Rider

Eighty

Father

Feds

Firsts

Found Objects

Fun

Generations

Hate

Hollywood

House

Ideas

Independent

Interesting

Japan

Jobs

Kids

Light

Live In The Moment

Logic

Looks

Lying

Made

Mean

Morning

Motorcycle

Music Business

Names

Ocean

Only Love

Painting

Party

People

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Quotes by Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody’s going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be out on the street selling apples and pencils and they’re still going to be buying paintings for this money, so I don’t know what’s going on in this world.

Dialectic logic is there’s only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.

Easy Rider’ was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It’s not been a bad life.

I didn’t see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price’s house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack. He had an amazing collection. I didn’t know people painted abstractly, I thought I was just doing something wholeheartedly.

I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.

I think not being a professional photographer was actually a blessing, because it allowed me to shoot things professional photographers wouldn’t shoot, or wouldn’t try or attempt to shoot without lights. So I did all my stuff natural and without lights.

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don’t crop them, I don’t manipulate them or anything. So they’re like found objects to me.

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