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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• Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Best
  • Dark
  • Shadow

• 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

• A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• 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

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• 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

• I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Dark
  • Movies
  • Old

• I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Art
  • Bad
  • History

• 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

• A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Judge

• When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

  

  Amy Dickinson
  • Experience
  • Speak
  • Criticizing

• I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Exercise
  • Courses

• I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • People
  • Care
  • Critics

• 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