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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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"It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
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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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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"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 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
"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 never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
Painting
"Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own."
Art
"You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop."
Time
"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 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?"
Painting
"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."
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