Nick Bantock
Nick Bantock
Nick Bantockis a British artist and author based in Saltspring Island, British Columbia, known for his series, The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy. His books are published by Raincoast Books in Canada and Chronicle Books in the United States...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth14 July 1949
Nick Bantock quotes about
understanding green approximation
Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.
pain heart loss
in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.
collective-unconscious want way
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.
growing-up doors light
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.
mistake thinking offering
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
frightened
I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.
pain constant bedfellows
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows
pain love-you passion
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 been my obsession, my passion, my philosophers' stone of fantasy. You are my desire, my longing, my spirit. I love you unconditionally. - Sabine Strohem
spiritual art commitment
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.
barely family feed katie minute next
One minute I was completely unknown, barely able to feed my family, living on pennies. The next minute, Katie Couric was interviewing me on the breakfast show.