What follows below is a list of certain things that keep on popping up in Mark's work and just won't seem to go away, as well as some (un)related and (ir/)relevant quotes ...

Clouds

"Pink cloud has now turned to gray, all that I want is to play" (Layne Stayley)

 

Coffee

"But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all"
(David Lynch)

 

The Crucifix

"We must suffer, we must all suffer ... each one must carry his cross" (The Bible)

 

Curtains

"Behind her eyes, there’s curtains, and they’ve been closed to hide the flames" (Eddie Vedder)

 

Dressing-Gowns

“Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide them all” (William Shakespeare)

 

Fancy Dress

“We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love" (R. D. Laing)

 

Fire

"Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men" (Dante Alighieri)

 

Flowers

"All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, but here is one" (Jeff Buckley)

 

Fruit

"Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas" (Jim Jarmusch)

 

Graveyards

“Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards” (Samuel Beckett)

 

The Key

“I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

 

The Knife

"I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice" (Neil Young)

 

The Mirror

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul" (George Bernard Shaw)

 

The Moon

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody" (Mark Twain)

 

The Ocean

"Look at the sea and remember the past. Look at the sky and imagine the future. Look at the land and think of the present. And at the most profound place where land, sea and sky are one - there ye shall play volleyball (Simon Munnery)

 

Painting

"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream" (Vincent Van Gogh)

 

Performance (Live Band)

"Without music, life would be a mistake" (Friedrich Nietzsche)

 

The Phone-Box

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" (George Bernard Shaw)

 

Photography

“The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget" (John Berger)

 

(Characters looking at) Photographs

“A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind" (Albert Einstein)

 

Power-Lines

"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun" (Jean Genet)

 

Public Transport

"The bus gives you a hard-on with books in your lap" (James Douglas Morrison)

 

Scissors

“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil" (Truman Capote)

 

Shaving

"To represent castration symbolically, the dream-work makes use of baldness, hair-cutting, falling out of teeth and decapitation" (Sigmund Freud)

 

Showers/Baths

“I push this one button and the shower goes on and I think, where the fuck am I?” (Ozzy Ozbourne)

 

Signage

“The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform" (Charles Baudelaire)

 

Telephones

“He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer" (George Orwell)

 

The Toilet

"I like to poo" (Britney Spears)

 

Washing Hands

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world" (George Bernard Shaw)