Derek Jarman

One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first…

— Derek Jarman

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms…

— Derek Jarman

“The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.”

— Derek Jarman

I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies

— Derek Jarman

Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow…

— Derek Jarman

If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.

— Derek Jarman

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

— Derek Jarman

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you…

— Derek Jarman

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you…

— Derek Jarman

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

— Derek Jarman

Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.

— Derek Jarman

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

— Derek Jarman

Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated…

— Derek Jarman

“If you can, trap me. I'll make a good patient because I was brought up in the environment of authority; it's going…

— Derek Jarman

The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens…

— Derek Jarman

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story…

— Derek Jarman

On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret…

— Derek Jarman

“a dream world, a world of magic and ritual, yet there are images there of the burning cars and radar systems, which…

— Derek Jarman

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly…

— Derek Jarman

The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of…

— Derek Jarman

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand…

— Derek Jarman

“But the wind does not stop for my thoughts. It whips across the flooded gravel pits drumming up waves on their waters…

— Derek Jarman

“I think of the area of magic as a metaphor for the homosexual situation. You know, magic which is banned and dangerous,…

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Painters used red like spice

— Derek Jarman

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea...

— Derek Jarman