Taken from the Special Features on "The Midnight Meat Train" dvd. The multi-talented Clive Barker talks about his art and the movie, which is based on the short story of the same name from Volume One of his "Books of Blood".
People like Clive Barker helped me to accept and understand my interests without shame or guilt. Beauty and the grotesque living within the same moment. Thank you sir for being fearless and inspiring the rest of us.
Clive Barker has to be one of the most creative individuals alive today. I finally started to read Imajica last month after meaning to for years, and some of the landscapes, scenes and characters he describes put pictures in my mind like nothing else I've ever read. His artwork really is amazing. I'd happily take some of those failures off his hands! As for Midnight Meat Train, I liked it, but let this lesson be learned: don't do CG gore.
Neil Hansford Imajica was an amazing book. The way Clive intertwined all the horror and fantasy elements was insane. I've read and loved all his books ,but Imajica will always be my favorite.
To me it seems that Clive Barkers art brings more daylight to people than it scares away. Or maybe it is just me... as somebody said- one man's heaven is other man's hell.
I would fill my house with the paintings you see as rejects Mr. Barker. .I saw some stuff in the 'rejects' tent I would literally kill to have on my wall. I think that all the aspects of your output have merit and take us that little bit further into Abarat or Quiddity I wish I was standing on the shore of one of your dream seas, and I think that even the canvases you deem to have 'overthought' bring the reader of your work, closer to these wonderful, frightening but intriguing worlds and characters.
Arts biggest enemy is the question Why?...why are we as people, scared to talk about what we value or love most?...man..gained some insight from this interview. After all these years Clive Barker stayed humble and true to himself. Congrats Clive! Keep it up! Your an inspiration! Till our next mutual birthday! Best of wishes man.
I think he is so talented, having the mental landscape of the endless while scaring the pants off me. I think he is the absolute face of british horror, and I hope eventually someone gives his work the decent representation on screen that it deserves. his paintings, his comics...live for his media!
Clive, can you give me the lowdown on the Lament Configuration please. Is it dated to Zoroastrianist Persia? Even though it's more ancient than that; as we both well know.....and Jehovah/Merrick; can't leave him out.
Now that's out of the way; I must say Clive; I love your art. Is it magikally charged like sigils per chance. Well it is now. Couldn't help myself mate; I love it!
Clive working his ass off and putting his all in to a project as well as his health issues are the reason's why his work takes a while to come to light and i'm sure everyone would agree that its better done properly in his own good time than rushed and not thought about.
yes, failures ... stuff most people would be happy if they produced. The stuff truly is a passion to him. I do oil paintings and can't imagine making so many over a ten year period.
this is what i strive to become i have to work towards the leisure and joy of paint, i have to publish more books and begin selling and make movies that matter
Can someone tell me why his voice changed so much over the years? I watch his older videos, and he's relaxed and fluent, yet in this video his sounds like Karl in Sling Blade.
i love the featurettes from midnight meat train,director changed the end from the short though, it made the movie fucking stupid in my opinion as much as i liked it
I don't understand. In this video he claims he was 45 when he started to pain (4:16), but in this video from 1987, when he was just 35, he also talks about his painting: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3qpDWlGwOD8.html
Only a dilettante couldn't differentiate real timeless art from the garbage on display in this footage. That said, his books are quite good though he's no Lovecraft.
