Q: "Did you feel at the time that you all had a common goal?"
David: "Yes. There was a common goal. The place was the unifying thing, very much. That feeling was very good but it also had the seeds of decadence in that some of them were very anti-London, very anti-international.
I don't believe or ever have believed that strong local feeling should be at the expense of the outside world. I believe in exactly the opposite, that strong local feeling is only possible when you have something else to compare it with.
Any art movement has its own decay. I cannot see any painting movement not having a negative pole, a cul de sac to which it must inevitably advance..."
David Haughton on St Ives (Recorded in Edgware, 1980)
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