Stanley Spencer quotes

“Wherever a cat sits, there shall happiness be found.”
-- Stanley Spencer

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“Painting is saying "Ta" to God.”
-- Stanley Spencer

Source : 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.”
-- Stanley Spencer

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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 Spencer

Source : 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.”
-- Stanley Spencer

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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 Spencer

Source : 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 Spencer

Source : "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.”
-- 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.”

“As far as pets go, a cat is a nice on to have.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.”

“A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.”

“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.”

“I found I have to stay painting.”

“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.”