Stanley Spencer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Wherever a cat sits, there shall happiness be found.
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Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.
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I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.
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Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet.
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When I lived in Cookham I was disturbed by a feeling of everything being meaningless.But quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full of special meaning and this made everything holy... I observed this sacred quality in most unexpected quarters.
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Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.
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I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.
-- Stanley Spencer
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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As far as pets go, a cat is a nice on to have.
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You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.
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Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'
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In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
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Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.
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I found I have to stay painting.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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