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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'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 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."
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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 have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
Painting
"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
"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
"Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own."
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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
"You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop."
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"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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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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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'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."
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"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."
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"My painting does not come from the easel."
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"I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my 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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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour."
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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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