Writing is something I should have done more of, it’s a form of coming home. Amanda Harlech Read Quote
I think I am really easygoing. Well… as I was about halfway through that sentence, I thought, ‘No, actually you’re really picky.’ But the things I ask for are really simple to do. Amanda Harlech Read Quote
Contemporary culture is like the weather – we have to be open to it. I don’t like the way it is dismissed or closed down. Amanda Harlech Read Quote
I don’t think I am a proud person, but I think my children are incredible… I think I am part of that. Amanda Harlech Read Quote
Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I’m on my way there. Amanda Harlech Read Quote
I do quite a lot of art, with a small ‘a’. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange. Amanda Harlech Read Quote
I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it’s not always a feeling that you can identify. It’s like a dog sitting in front of a fire. Pain isolates you, but it can also clarify things. Amanda Harlech Read Quote
I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don’t want to say what they think. Amanda Harlech Read Quote
People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They’d come and go – they wouldn’t actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don’t think I’m a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty. Amanda Harlech Read Quote
