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"I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?"
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"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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"Through a painting we can see the whole world."
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"I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting."
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"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
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"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand."
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"A painting that is well composed is half finished."
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"I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour."
Life
"I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not."
People
"I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before."
Life
"You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop."
Time
"As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment."
Thought
"When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them."
Work
"I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture."
Limit
"I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine."
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"I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?"
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"I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake."
People
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