John Fowles

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. ↗

— John Fowles

#creativity #personality #art

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands. ↗

— John Fowles

#artists #creativity #painting #skill #art

The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity. ↗

— John Fowles

#nature #nature-of-man #nature

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing. ↗

— John Fowles

#description #nature #beauty

Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education. ↗

— John Fowles

#women-sexuality #education

and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring ↗

— John Fowles

#life

I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn’t found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to love. ↗

— John Fowles

#love

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. ↗

— John Fowles

#women-s-strength #men

I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist. ↗

— John Fowles

#movies #reading #movies

Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money. ↗

— John Fowles

#money #privilege #money