457 Quotes by Clive Barker

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.

I’ve never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.

What do the good know?’ he said. ‘Except what the bad teach them by their excesses?

Fear is a place where you just tell the truth.

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.

You cut up a thing that’s alive and beautiful to find out how it’s alive and why it’s beautiful, and before you know it, it’s neither of those things, and you’re standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.

Hopelessness is reasonable. But nothing of worth in my life came of reason. Not my love, not my art, not my heaven. So I am hopeful.

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love.

The Monastery of the Cenobitical Order was a large-walled compound built seven hundred thousand years ago on a damned-made hill of stone and cement.