“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I'm an inclusionist. I've always divided up (very, very broadly, I admit) the artistic instincts into the inclusionist and the exclusionist. The… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I can certainly throw out some observation about the process of creating which may be of use. Firstly, it's the best &… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Only when they have outrun the all-too-eager shadows of the Canyon and they are back in the glare of the billboards on Sunset Boulevard,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Despite his intent, tears sprang to his eyes, and he went into her embrace, both of them sobbing freely, like enemies joined by a… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
