33 Quotes by Derek Jarman

I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies.

Painters used red like spice.

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 the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

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 an ideal of racial purity.

Always becoming, never arriving. Life is at a standstill – only ideas flash past. In such confusion I find myself running after them: Hey! Stop! Stop! But they escape, leaving me staring at a grey English spring.

The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn’t attached to a drip.