Top 8 Quotes by Stanley Spencer

Wherever a cat sits, there shall happiness be found.

Wherever a cat sits, there shall happiness be found.

Cat, Found

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

Artist, Miracle, Saint

Sir Stanley Spencer, Adrian Glew (2001). “Stanley Spencer: letters and writings”, Tate

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.

Stanley Spencer

Feelings, Special, Quality

Sir Stanley Spencer, Fiona MacCarthy, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City) (1997). “Stanley Spencer: An English Vision”, Yale University Press

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.

Stanley Spencer

Everyday, Together, Ordinary

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

Stanley Spencer

Art, Knows, Do You Know

"Times Thievish Progress". Book by John Rothenstein, 1970.

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.

Stanley Spencer

Men, Wish, Rats