Quotes from Nick Bantock

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.

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

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.

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

You have told me your history, but speak little fo teh present. Why's that - Sabine Strohem

It's not always easy to keep going when faced with indifference or to watch values being defined by a mass infatuation with mediocrity.

I offer myself in paint instead. It's self flattering, but that's our prerogative as artists—to record ourselves the way we wish.

He calls you dear Sabine - Patronizing fart!

It has often struck me as peculiar that there are so few words for love. the term is forced to span such a large area of emotion

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

So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.

SABINE THINGS HAVE BECOME SO DIFFICULT. I MUSTN'T WRITE AGAIN. THIS WHOLE AFFAIR HAS GOTTEN TOO INTENSE. TOO REAL, SABINE, YOU DON'T EXIST. I INVENTED YOU. YOU, THE CARDS, THE STAMPS. THE ISLANDS, YOU'RE A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION. I WAS LONELY AND I WANTED A FRIEND. BUT I'M ALMOST OUT OF CONTROL. I'VE STARTED TO THINK I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU. BEFORE IT TAKES ME OVER IT HAS TO STOP. GOODBYE. GRIFFIN

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

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've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE.

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

Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at whim. - Sabine Strohem

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

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.

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

It is pointless to be any less than all you can be.

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