London Triptych Quotes

“Prostitution is the apotheosis of capitalism.”
― Jonathan Kemp, London Triptych

“I sat alone, armed with the eye of an anthropologist and the heart of a beggar.”
― Jonathan Kemp, London Triptych

“It is best to believe almost everything one writes and almost nothing one reads, because in order to believe something completely one must have lived it, and one does not live a book one has read, only a book one has written.”
― Jonathan Kemp, London Triptych

“Freedom is always frightening; that's why most people choose not to be free.”
― Jonathan Kemp, London Triptych

“In this life, dreams are all we have to remind us of who we really are or should be. How different my life would have been if I'd been strong enough to defy everyone in the pursuit of freedom. How difficult life is without the freedom to discover who you are meant to be. I refuse to believe I was meant to be so unhappy.”
― Jonathan Kemp, London Triptych

“We all accept without question - on faith - that the way we see the world is the way it is, the way other people see it, a truth or a fact that need not be corroborated.”
― Jonathan Kemp, London Triptych

“But the life that art creates is not the same as the life that creates art.”
― Jonathan Kemp, London Triptych

“but what of the selling of one's soul, or one's freedom, one's individual spirit? Doesn't one's life also have a price? How much am I worth? How much is he worth?”
― Jonathan Kemp, London Triptych

“youth is wasted on the young. And he was right. You look back on your own youth and view it with the eyes of another person, and it seems as foreign as another country, as distant as a star.”
― Jonathan Kemp, London Triptych