Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
Lawrence Durrell…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans
Lawrence DurrellI am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!
Lawrence DurrellHe thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
Lawrence Durrell