Derek Jarman Quotes

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• Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we…
• All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like…
• I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.
• Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!
• I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be…
• Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
• 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.
• The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in…
• If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.
• Painters used red like spice
• The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to…
• One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or…
• 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 at…
• I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies
• Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures.…
• Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea...
• The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
• Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
• 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 and…

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