I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.
We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.
You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done the research.
In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.
Still we say as we go,-"Strange to think by the wayWhatever there is to know,That shall we know one day.