Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme. — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
“The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.” — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them. — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum. — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
