Best 26 quotes of Nick Bantock on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

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.

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.

she hurriedly wipes her eyes so that he can see the girl he wishes.

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

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.

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.

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

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

(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.

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

SABINE THINGS HAVE BECOME SO DIFFICULT. I MUSTN'T WRITE AGAIN. THIS WHOLE AFFAIR HAS GOTTEN TOO INTENSE. TOO REAL, SABINE, YOU DON'T EXIST. I INVENTED YOU. YOU, THE CARDS, THE STAMPS. THE ISLANDS, YOU'RE A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION. I WAS LONELY AND I WANTED A FRIEND. BUT I'M ALMOST OUT OF CONTROL. I'VE STARTED TO THINK I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU. BEFORE IT TAKES ME OVER IT HAS TO STOP. GOODBYE. GRIFFIN

So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.