Nick Bantock Quotes

I've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE.

An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.

I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.

I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang with pain and pleasure. You have been my obsession, my passion, my philosophers' stone of fantasy. You are my desire, my longing, my spirit. I love you unconditionally. - Sabine Strohem

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.

Do you see that I cherish you beyond question, that you have nothing to prove to me? You are making your journey to secure yourself. I am already tethered to your side. if you can love yourself as I love you there will be no dislocation
you will be whole. Bring yourself home to me and I will immerse you in very ounce of tenderness I possess. - Sabine Strohem

It is pointless to be any less than all you can be.

You have told me your history, but speak little fo teh present. Why's that - Sabine Strohem

Sensual images of you are forever tangoing through my brain
maybe I can begin solidify them. At least they would be mine! - Matthew Sedon

The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.

I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.

Now that you're there and have been all along, I feel whole again. - Griffin Moss

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.

Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen.

In the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

It's not always easy to keep going when faced with indifference or to watch values being defined by a mass infatuation with mediocrity.

I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way.

Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.

Move fluidly by earth of water and stop to listen to the wind as it whispers your whereabouts. . . Savour the path and enjoy the sun.

(I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)

I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.

For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.

One minute I was completely unknown, barely able to feed my family, living on pennies. The next minute, Katie Couric was interviewing me on the breakfast show.

She demanded, "Give up your life of idolatry and become a doctor."
I declined. "I have my geraniums to look after.

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.

Her mother is asking her a question and she is forced to resurface from the sanctuary of daydream.

I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don't allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it.

One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex.