Stanley Spencer quotes:

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.

When I lived in Cookham I was disturbed by a feeling of everything being meaningless.But quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full of special meaning and this made everything holy... I observed this sacred quality in most unexpected quarters.

Wherever a cat sits, there shall happiness be found.

Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet.

Painting is saying "Ta" to God.

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.

I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.