30 quotes found
“Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.”
“If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.”
“When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies”
“The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.”
“I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.”
“Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.”
“This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing.All in vain. All wasted.The older the world becomes, the ...”
“I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.”
“I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beauti...”
“I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being al...”
“He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.”
“The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of thin...”
“You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their place is a horrid little refusal to have nasty thou...”
“Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is burst...”
“Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.”
“Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by l...”
“But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.”
“I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. Thats what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist ...”
“It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair t...”
“Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you. ”
“I hate beyond hate.”
“It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair th...”
