Quotes from John Fowles, The Collector

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

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.