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Top 25 Nick Bantock Quotes (2024 Update)

Nick Bantock Quote: “You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.”

1. “You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts.”

2. “Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.”

3. “Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “I don’t think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. – Matt Sedon.”

4. “I don’t think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. – Matt Sedon.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children’s nonsense rhyme.”

5. “I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children’s nonsense rhyme.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover’s desires.”

7. “She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover’s desires.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.”

8. “The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.”

9. “Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it’s like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.”

10. “The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it’s like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It’s not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.”

11. “Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It’s not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “I have no idea of what it’s going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don’t allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it.”

12. “I have no idea of what it’s going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don’t allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.”

13. “I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn’t do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.”

14. “Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn’t do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I’m out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.”

15. “For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I’m out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “Every one of us sees ‘green’ differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.”

16. “Every one of us sees ‘green’ differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen.”

17. “Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “An idea or an insight doesn’t come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.”

18. “An idea or an insight doesn’t come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “Why is it that looking down seems so much higher than looking up?”

19. “Why is it that looking down seems so much higher than looking up?”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way.”

20. “I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “Until the moment I met you, I always seem to be caught between dreading the responsibility of someone else’s love and being resentful that I didn’t feel properly loved myself. Often both seemed to exist at the same time. With you it’s different. I can’t hear enough about your love for me. Yet still, in some way I’m holding back. it’s as though I can’t fully let go without causing an eruption of need, hunger, and desire of such overwhelming proportions that it would wipe me out entirely.”

21. “Until the moment I met you, I always seem to be caught between dreading the responsibility of someone else’s love and being resentful that I didn’t feel properly loved myself. Often both seemed to exist at the same time. With you it’s different. I can’t hear enough about your love for me. Yet still, in some way I’m holding back. it’s as though I can’t fully let go without causing an eruption of need, hunger, and desire of such overwhelming proportions that it would wipe me out entirely.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “It’s the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.”

22. “It’s the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.”

23. “I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That’s how the writing came out.”

24. “I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That’s how the writing came out.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “I could see sunlight making exquisite patterns on the water’s surface above me. Everything seemed fascinating and very slow. All around me lionfish darted like golden suns and moons in an alchemists’s dream. I looked down to where a vast labyrinth of black seaweed awaited me.”

25. “I could see sunlight making exquisite patterns on the water’s surface above me. Everything seemed fascinating and very slow. All around me lionfish darted like golden suns and moons in an alchemists’s dream. I looked down to where a vast labyrinth of black seaweed awaited me.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “I offer myself in paint instead. It’s self flattering, but that’s our prerogative as artists – to record ourselves the way we wish.”

26. “I offer myself in paint instead. It’s self flattering, but that’s our prerogative as artists – to record ourselves the way we wish.”

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Nick Bantock Quote: “Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court’s. Books ruled out lives. They were our demi-gods.”

27. “Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court’s. Books ruled out lives. They were our demi-gods.”

— Nick Bantock

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