John Wain Quotes

I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.

There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.

How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.