3 Clive Barker Quotes on Body

Clive Barker quotes on body

2. Every body is a book of blood; Wherever we're opened, we're red.

3. Flesh is our indisputable commonality. Whatever our race, our religion, our politics we are faced every morning with the fact of our bodies. Their frailties, their demands, their desires. And yet the erotic appetites that spring from - and are expressed through - those bodies, are so often a source of bitter dissension and division. Acts that offer a glimpse of transcendence to one group are condemned by another. We are pressured from every side - by peers, by church, by state - to accept the consensual definition of taboo; though so often what excites our imaginations most is the violation of taboo.

6. I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.