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 co…

- Nick Bantock

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 i…

- Nick Bantock

Do you see that I cherish you beyond question, that you have nothing to prove to me? You are making your journey to secure yourself. I am already tet…

- Nick Bantock

I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang with pain and pleasure. You have b…

- Nick Bantock

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 …

- Nick Bantock

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

- Nick Bantock

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 w…

- Nick Bantock

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

- Nick Bantock

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

- Nick Bantock