I am so sick and tired of being told what I'm supposed to look like! Genesis P-Orridge More Quotes by Genesis P-Orridge More Quotes From Genesis P-Orridge As a little boy, I never felt comfortable with being human. Genesis P-Orridge boy human never being The body is simply the suitcase that carries us around. Genesis P-Orridge simply around us body We all fall into biological and mental habits. It's an easy way for us to navigate day-to-day work and life, but it also doesn't do us any favours in terms of growing into wisdom, growing into a greater understanding of each other, growing into a deeper relationship - all the things that we really crave. Genesis P-Orridge wisdom work relationship life The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person. Genesis P-Orridge identity mind brain memories The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else. Genesis P-Orridge more great irony conservative My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking. Genesis P-Orridge seduce order people thinking Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel. Genesis P-Orridge look you change world Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery. Genesis P-Orridge nobody thought mystery alive To sell yourself is somewhat debasing, and everyone is selling something. Genesis P-Orridge everyone yourself something selling If we confound and break up the proposed unfolding the world impresses upon us, we can give ourselves the space to consider what we want to be as a species. Genesis P-Orridge us space want world I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when I was six or seven, digging a hole beneath a tree. And I would go into this tomb, this cave that I had made, and would lie there, meditating, for hours. Genesis P-Orridge lie time tree remember Even if the world outside is destroying itself and fragmented and paranoid and fearful, the job of the artist is to embrace and hold people and say, 'It's OK, be safe here.' Genesis P-Orridge job artist people world Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change. Genesis P-Orridge telling-the-truth change truth time Change is not a linear process; it's an all-encompassing process, and it's alive in different ways. Genesis P-Orridge alive different change process Lady Jaye and I always thought black eyes were really sexy. Genesis P-Orridge eyes thought sexy black