I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back. Nick Bantock More Quotes by Nick Bantock More Quotes From Nick Bantock Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts Nick Bantock letters writing long 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 passion pain love-you 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 journey love-you home 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. Nick Bantock perspective events ideas 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. Nick Bantock spiritual commitment art 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. Nick Bantock stars country needs Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding. Nick Bantock approximation green understanding 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 judging dark art It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later. Nick Bantock foundation nasty absence 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 receiving keys sex 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 artist journey memories 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 offering mistake thinking Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows Nick Bantock bedfellows constant pain in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction. Nick Bantock pain loss heart 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 You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit. Nick Bantock spirituality together art 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 technique writing years 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. Nick Bantock looks ideas art She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires Nick Bantock lips taste desire 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
