David Batchelor Quotes

#1. Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Virginia Woolf

#2. I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.

Claire Tomalin

#3. Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.

David Batchelor

#4. I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand.

Michael Leunig

#5. Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.

David Batchelor

#6. The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.

David Batchelor

#7. Theorem: Consider the set of all sets that have never been considered. Hey! They're all gone!! Oh, well, never mind...

David Batchelor

#8. I stroke a finger over my own top button, undo it, then let my hand drop with an exaggerated sigh. "It's not quite the same," I declare, "ripping my own clothes off.

Kate Tough

#9. But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil, damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness . . . . . which could obviously be redeemed only by passing through the fiery, cleansing inferno of a wizardly digestive tract.

Jim Butcher