Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist.
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“"Gather experience. . . Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this." Barker performed a disection at a funeral home, for the sake of understanding death at close hand.”
Clive Barker
“Here is a list of fearful things:The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,The rabid bite of the dog's of war,The voice of one who went before.But most of all the mirror's gaze,which counts us out our numbered days.”
“I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.”
“To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!”
“I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.”
“Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.”
“You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.”
“You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.”
“On the crassest level, the lady gets into the box, the lady is sawn in half, the lady is in two pieces, the box is put back together again and the lady is whole. The magician, the shaman figure, the worker of miracles divides and subdivides himself and his assistants. He's drowned, is bound, is filled with swords, and comes out whole.”
“I wrote none of these books. I made none of these films. Nor drew the drawings, nor opined at such length on death, sex and the human condition.”