Eighty Quote by Derek Jarman

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

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

“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 in Indian…

— 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 were not…

— 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 for a…

— Derek Jarman