“Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon an old notebook in which I'd written, 'Touch, timing and timbre... keys to the heart.' That just about says it all.” HeartImportantWrittenParticularKeysRhythmFeaturesTimingNotebookTimbre Author:James Nares
“Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?” SelfDreamArtistFantasyServingOur DreamsPretenseSelf Serving Book:The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol Source: The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol
“An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.” MayBodyUsedArtistAdvantageConsumingEcosystems Author:Jan Peacock
“The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.” WorldDoeSpiritualNextImaginationClearStrangeUglyBest Things Author:Jan Peacock
“Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.” TypeLimitsDiscoverySorryPatternsYieldRepetition Author:Jan Peacock
“It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.” ArtistCan DoPoetProfessionI RealizedEpiphanyTranslatorsLinguists Author:Jan Peacock
“Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.” MayHas BeensAttentionOne ThingLateOneselfDistractionCapitalistRepetitionFavour Author:Jan Peacock