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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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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."
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"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."
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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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"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."
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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 have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
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."
Limit
"When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them."
Work
"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
"I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine."
Job
"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
"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
"Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own."
Art
"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
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