Kenneth Anger famous quotes

04-27-2025

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer.
-- Kenneth Anger

#Art #Color #Saint
I've made several films that haven't been shown.
-- Kenneth Anger

#Film #Made
Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.
-- Kenneth Anger

#Home #Hollywood #Ghost
Making a movie is casting a spell.
-- Kenneth Anger

#Casting
A film about the love generation - the birthday party of the Aquarian Age showing actual ceremonies to make Lucifer rise. Lucifer is the Light god, not the devil - the Rebel Angel behind what's happening in the world today. His message is that the key of joy is disobedience. Isis (Nature) wakes. Osiris (Death) answers. Lilith (Destroyer) climbs to the place of Sacrifice. The Magus activates the circle and Lucifer - Bringer of Light - breaks through.
-- Kenneth Anger

#Party #Angel #Sacrifice
A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.
-- Kenneth Anger

#Views #Jeans #Mirrors
A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.
-- Kenneth Anger

#Stars #Hollywood #Gone
This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.
-- Kenneth Anger

#July #Navy #United States
If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me â€“ all of me â€“ I'm yours.
-- Kenneth Anger

#Media #Made #Members
I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.
-- Kenneth Anger

#Evil #Black #Cinema
The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.
-- Kenneth Anger

#New York #Rights #Cost
Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.
-- Kenneth Anger

#People #Directors #Routine
Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
-- Kenneth Anger

#America #Generations #Legends
I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
-- Kenneth Anger

#People #Risk #Want
I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.
-- Kenneth Anger

#Speech #Film #Made
Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.
-- Kenneth Anger

#Evil #Soul #Enchantment

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