Nick Bantock Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

(I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)

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

I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.