 I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene. |
| As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know. |
| You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily. |
| I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'. |
| I have no fondness for pure form at all. |
| Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man. |
| In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures. |
