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"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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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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"Sunlight is painting."
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"I want to die painting."
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"But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it."
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"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
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"Well, I have a very simple method of painting."
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"Painting is a hobby for me."
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"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."
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"Writing and Painting are the same for me."
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"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."
Art
"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 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've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine."
Job
"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
Painting
"When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them."
Work
"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
"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 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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