Nick Bantock Quotes

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

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• Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Art
  • Black
  • Automation

• A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Nice

• Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Important
  • Love
  • Art

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Art
  • Joke
  • Salt

• Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Explore

• Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Art
  • Me
  • Attention

• Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Dark
  • Creativity
  • Angel

• The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Different
  • Art
  • Passion

• Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hope
  • Hand
  • Universe

• I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • Love
  • Art

• But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Up
  • Song
  • Moments

• I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Game

• A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• The true architectural art, that art toward which I would lead you, rests, not upon scholarship but upon human powers; and, therefore, it is to be tested, not by the fruits of scholarship, but by the touch-stone of humanity.

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • Art
  • True
  • Humanity

• The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Life
  • May
  • Road

• Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart. Part of what got me excited about the Aquaman character is his re-envisioning of Aquaman, the character, with 'The New 52.'

  

  James Wan
  • Character
  • Smart

• Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Reality
  • Thoughts
  • Now

• It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Good
  • Interesting

• Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Soul
  • Ego
  • Names

• Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Great
  • Music
  • Home

• 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
  • Art
  • Dark
  • Judging