20 Quotes by Amanda Harlech

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them.

Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.

I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's like a dog sitting in front of a fire. Pain isolates you, but it can also clarify things.

I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away, and it is probably the biggest failure, and I have to live with that.

Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.

I don't think I am a proud person, but I think my children are incredible... I think I am part of that.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.