11 Quotes by Ken Russell

In childhood we inhabit a world of wonderful contrasts that later we often come to see as bizarre and do our best to rearrange, with everything in its ‘proper’ place. Unusual juxtapositions we label surrealistic. Yet what is surrealism but a second childhood with Freudian overtones which we have to be re-educated to enjoy? – part of the tragedy of growing up.

To see the past from the vantage point of the present is to be able to judge the effect of the past on the present.