“In the meditation, of course, the question is repeated and repeated until you run out of answers - or so I hear.” RunningCoursesAnswersMeditation Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically tried to work out who I was and what I should do, I would never have come up with the idea of writing. It was already there, gratis, a given - a gift.” PeopleIfsShouldWritingIdeasCoursesGivenAbilityCreativeDown AndCome UpWork OutSat Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.” CoursesSeventiesNormality Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.” MeanWarCoursesParticularErasPostsSixtyNaiveGlamourHendrixPost War Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.” YearsMadeFilmCoursesMovementPunkJubilee Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I have a sense of them being Easter religions, for some reason. Christianity, of course, is a mystery religion, too, and I believe that Arthur Machen was one of those especially interested in the link between the pagan mysteries and the Christian ones. So, my experience was also a Machenesque experience.” BelieveReasonChristianCoursesI BelieveChristianityMysteryLinksEasterPaganArthur Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that which I find strangest of all for a muse, a human female. Of course, she's also adept at taking the form of toothless old Japanese men or young English lads with tattoos.” MenWritingHumansFormYoungCoursesPiecesStyleFemaleErasLandscapeMuseTattooLadAdeptToothless Author:Quentin S. Crisp
