Derek Jarman

“Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.”

“Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you.”

“The queers are coming out of the closets, closets are for clothes not for people.”

“My garden is my poem.”

“For the garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.”

“Blue transcends the solemn geography of human limits.”

“Lend me your eyes, I can change what you see. But your soul you must keep, totally free.”

“The painter seeks the silence of the void. But the void is not silent. It is a resounding void.”

“What is it about our society that we find it necessary to put the gay man in a ghetto?”

“If I die tomorrow, I have no regrets. I have had a great life.”

“My whole life has been a search for happiness. It’s been a void that has never been filled.”

“Film is a disease. When you are editing, you are in a state of terror.”

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

“History is a pageant and not a philosophy.”