Top 45 Nick Bantock Quotes
#1. I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.
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#2. 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
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#3. In the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.
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#4. Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court's. Books ruled out lives. They were our demi-gods.
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#5. You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Why is it that looking down seems so much higher than looking up?
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#8. 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
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#9. So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.
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#10. As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.
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#11. 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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#12. It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.
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#13. She hurriedly wipes her eyes so that he can see the girl he wishes.
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#14. I could see sunlight making exquisite patterns on the water's surface above me. Everything seemed fascinating and very slow. All around me lionfish darted like golden suns and moons in an alchemists's dream. I looked down to where a vast labyrinth of black seaweed awaited me.
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#15. I've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE.
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#16. You have told me your history, but speak little fo teh present. Why's that - Sabine Strohem
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. Her mother is asking her a question and she is forced to resurface from the sanctuary of daydream.
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#21. From our few days together, I have only one regret. Why did I not love you harder, stronger? If I could have you Love, now, I'd hold you so closely that our particles would absorb into one another. - Isabella de Reims
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#22. I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.
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#23. Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.
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#24. 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.
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#25. I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.
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#26. He calls you dear Sabine - Patronizing fart!
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#27. She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#30. 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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#31. (I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)
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#32. Now that you're there and have been all along, I feel whole again. - Griffin Moss
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#33. Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at whim. - Sabine Strohem
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#34. She demanded, "Give up your life of idolatry and become a doctor."
I declined. "I have my geraniums to look after.
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#35. Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one's thoughts
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#36. 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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#37. Would your fear be any less and would you see that you had been chosen to help the sun rise?
-Sabine to Matthew
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#38. Sensual images of you are forever tangoing through my brain
maybe I can begin solidify them. At least they would be mine! - Matthew Sedon
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#39. It is pointless to be any less than all you can be.
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. It's not always easy to keep going when faced with indifference or to watch values being defined by a mass infatuation with mediocrity.
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#43. Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen.
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#44. 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.
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#45. 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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