Nick Bantock Quotes

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

  Nick Bantock

  Writing, Long, Letters

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• 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

  Nick Bantock

  Pain, Love You, Passion

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• 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

  Nick Bantock

  Love You, Home, Journey

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• 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.

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  Ideas, Perspective, Events

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

  Nick Bantock

  Understanding, Green, Approximation

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• Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

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  Spiritual, Art, Commitment

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• 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.

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  Country, Stars, Needs

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• Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

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  Pain, Constant, Bedfellows

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• 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.

  Nick Bantock

  Art, Dark, Judging

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

  Nick Bantock

  Pain, Heart, Loss

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

  Nick Bantock

  Art, Together, Spirituality

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• I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.

  Nick Bantock

  Frightened

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

  Nick Bantock

  Desire, Taste, Lips

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• 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.

  Nick Bantock

  Memories, Artist, Journey

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• 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.

  Nick Bantock

  Sex, Keys, Receiving

  Nick Bantock (2000). “The artful dodger: images & reflections”, Chronicle Books Llc

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

  Nick Bantock

  Foundation, Nasty, Absence

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• 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

  Nick Bantock

  Mistake, Thinking, Offering

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• 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.

  Nick Bantock

  Collective Unconscious, Want, Way

  Nick Bantock (2000). “The artful dodger: images & reflections”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• 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.

  Nick Bantock

  Worry, Decision, Tomorrow

  Nick Bantock (2000). “The artful dodger: images & reflections”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• 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.

  Nick Bantock

  Growing Up, Light, Doors

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

  Nick Bantock

  Children, Careers, Nonsense

  Nick Bantock (2000). “The artful dodger: images & reflections”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• 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.

  Nick Bantock

  Writing, Years, Technique

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• 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.

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  Art, Ideas, Looks

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

  Nick Bantock

  Girl, Eye, Wish

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• 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.

  Nick Bantock

  Children, Book, Kids

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