D. H. Lawrence

"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

"I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd."

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

"I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams."

"In every living thing there is the desire for love."

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."

"Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent."

"Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again."

"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness."

"Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description."

"People always make war when they say they love peace."

"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."

"The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just."

"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."

"There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him."

"They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates."

"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."

"You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere."