Quote

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.

Clive Barker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
Actor
Artist
Author
Designer
Film Director
Film Producer
Illustrator
Novelist
Painter
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
City of Liverpool
Loss
Fanatic
Animal
Offence
Dies
Fanatics
Littles
Personally
Little
Majors
Take
Major
Great
Dog
Things
Died

More quotes by Clive Barker

Image
I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
Clive Barker
Image
One man's pornography is another man's theology.
Clive Barker
Image
Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.
Clive Barker
Image
Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite
Clive Barker
Image
Everything is in flux: everything changes the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.
Clive Barker
Image
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.
Clive Barker
Image
I can see in your eyes that there’s no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come and gone. Those days when sudden epiphanies swept over you, and you had visions of the rightness of all things and of your place amongst them they’re history. You’re in a darker place now.
Clive Barker
Image
The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.
Clive Barker
Image
All I ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night
Clive Barker
Image
I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers .
Clive Barker
Image
Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.
Clive Barker
Image
..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
Clive Barker
Image
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.
Clive Barker
Image
With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.
Clive Barker
Image
I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.
Clive Barker
Image
She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.
Clive Barker
Image
Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
Clive Barker
Image
How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?
Clive Barker
Image
No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.
Clive Barker
Image
Always, worlds within worlds.
Clive Barker