Marina Warner
Writer and Professor in Creative Writing, Birkbeck, University of London
I’m principally a writer, but also a curator of exhibitions and a professor in creative writing at Birkbeck, University of London. I write fiction and non-fiction, cultural history and criticism, and I've written a great deal about myths and fairy tales. Currently I'm writing about the concept of sanctuary and the idea that imaginative constructs, stories, works of art or buildings, even, can be places of sanctuary. I'm also a curator of exhibitions.
EXPs by Marina Warner
The extraordinary thing is that a recognition of the power of art comes most strongly from those who want to destroy it.
Right from the first drawings on cave walls, we see art as a way of encapsulating, crystallising, making experiences through our eyes and capturing them in a permanent form.
There is a way in which the current of imagination, as it flows into a work of art, is a form of play – and that is essential to human well-being.