Quotes by John Fowles, The Collector

Explore a curated collection of 30 quotes by John Fowles, The Collector. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies — John Fowles, The Collector
Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive. — John Fowles, The Collector
Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've — John Fowles, The Collector
I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugl — John Fowles, The Collector
I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, a — John Fowles, The Collector
The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the — John Fowles, The Collector
You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? — John Fowles, The Collector
Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost hea — John Fowles, The Collector
Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nas — John Fowles, The Collector
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth transl — John Fowles, The Collector
I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That’s what peo — John Fowles, The Collector
This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Giv — John Fowles, The Collector
The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. — John Fowles, The Collector
I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is — John Fowles, The Collector
He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the li — John Fowles, The Collector
If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness. — John Fowles, The Collector
People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the — John Fowles, The Collector
It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the — John Fowles, The Collector
Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't — John Fowles, The Collector
I hate beyond hate. — John Fowles, The Collector