Johnny Depp: "I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face." Picture on the right, Johnny drinking absinthe in the movie From Hell.

Tommy Lee: "I was in London strip club recently, just for a quick 'taste,' and I can't remember the last hour of the night, I was drinking absinthe. There's not a chance I'm gonna change".

Leonardo DiCaprio: "I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy." Leonardo did heavy absinthe promotion in movie Eclipse Totale, playing Rimbaud - Verlaine's intimate friend.

Arthur Rimbaud:
"Come, the Wines go to the beaches,
And the waves by the millions!
See the wild Bitter,
Rolling from the top of the mountains!
Let us, wise pilgrims, reach
The Absinthe with the green pillars…"

Paul Marie Verlaine: "For me, my glory is but a humble ephemeral absinthe."

Marilyn Manson: "Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference."

Dita Von Teese Playboy model and Marilyn Manson's wife: "I brought a bottle of absinthe on our first date. One minute we were just friends and the next we were on the floor... It's amazing how Absinthe makes you lose your inhibitions."

Eminem: "You can make something of your life. It just depends on your drive." Hmmm, what was he thinking?

Voltaire: "The first month of marriage is the honeymoon, the second is the absinthe-moon."

Oscar Wilde: "After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: "Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it."

Charles Baudelaire: "Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."

Ernest Hemingway: "Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.”

Pablo Picasso: "Life is a miracle; it is a miracle one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar..."

Vincent Van Gogh: "The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray."

Ernest Dowson: "Whiskey and beer are for fools; absinthe for poets; absinthe has the power of the magicians; it can wipe out or renew the past, and annul or foretell the future."

Edouard Manet: "Black is not a color." Green maybe?

Aleister Crowley: “Ah! the Green Goddess! What is the fascination that makes her so adorable and so terrible?”

Edgar Allan Poe: "During these fits of absolute unconsciousness I drank, God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the drink rather than the drink to the insanity. I had indeed, nearly abandoned all hope of a permanent cure when I found one in the leash of my wife."