Life is not a symbol, is not one riddle and one failure to guess it, is not to inhabit one face alone or to be given up after one losing throw of the… - John Fowles

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine and deep and necessary. You don't have time for silly trivial things. You live seriously. You don't go to silly films, even if you want to; you don't read cheap newspapers; you don't listen to trash on the wireless and the telly; you don't waste time talking about nothing. You use your life.