Quotes from Bernard Pomerance

He has seen enough of daily evil to be thankful for small goods that come his way.

Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams. Because it is.

Before I spoke with people, I did not think of all these things because there was no one to bother to think them for. Now things just come out of my mouth which are true.

To live with his physical hideousness, incapacitating deformities and unremiting pain is trial enough, but to be exposed to the cruelly lacerating expressions of horror and disgust by all who behold him -- is even more difficult to bear. [...] For in order to survive, Merrick forces himself to suffer these humiliations, I repeat, humiliations, in order to survive, thus he exposes himself to crowds who pay to gape and yawp at this freak of nature, the Elephant Man.

The artist expresses his love through his works. That is civilization.

Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams. -John Merrick

TREVES: Plato believed this was all a world of illusion and that artists made illusions of illusions of heaven. MERRICK: You mean we are all just copies? Of originals? TREVES: That's it. MERRICK: Who made the copies? TREVES: God. The Demi-urge. MERRICK (goes back to work): He should have used both hands shouldn't he?

ART IS PERMITTED BUT NATURE FORBIDDEN