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"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."
"I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants."
"Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly."
"Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant."
"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."
"You cannot force a dry well to yield water."
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"You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop."
"When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them."
"Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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