“You paint with your whole being. First you learn that. The rest is luck.”

John Fowles, The Collector

“Call me a Philistine, if you like, but Art really only became Art in the last two centuries. Essentially, before that, it was furniture for improving one’s home.”

John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

“… everybody knows that the arts are selfish.”

Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose

“When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies.”

John Fowles, The Collector