Stanley Spencer quotes
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“Wherever a cat sits, there shall happiness be found.”
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“Painting is saying "Ta" to God.”
-- Stanley SpencerSource : In letter from Spencer's daughter Shirin, Observer 7 Feb. 1988
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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.”
-- Stanley SpencerSource : Sir Stanley Spencer, Adrian Glew (2001). “Stanley Spencer: letters and writings”, Tate
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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.”
-- Stanley SpencerSource : Sir Stanley Spencer, Fiona MacCarthy, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City) (1997). “Stanley Spencer: An English Vision”, Yale University Press
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“Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.”
-- Stanley SpencerSource : "Times Thievish Progress". Book by John Rothenstein, 1970.
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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.”
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