Psychedelia Quotes & Sayings

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know. — George Eliot

The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen. — Edward Ruscha

'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new. — Jerry Saltz

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone? — Marina Tsvetaeva

If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather. — Rain Phoenix

I think most Republicans would rather win this election than have transformation. — Lawrence O'Donnell

When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times. — Rick Riordan

People never bothered to pay attention to those who served them. Waiters and drivers were the most invisible people in the world. — Ayelet Waldman

I've always been curious about people's psychedelic experiences, and I kind of had this assumption that I was going to have some kind of crazy mindblowing psychedelia thing happening, but actually, it was very quiet, and I didn't have any hallucinations at all. Nothing changed, except that suddenly I could hear the voice of my conscience, which I didn't ever think of as being a real voice. And ever since having that experience, I've had that voice in my head and followed it occasionally. — Larkin Grimm

A heart as blue as a Companion's eyes, or the color of the clear winter sky. — Anonymous