"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, Limits, Living, Trying

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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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"It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be."

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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."

Peter Wright, British Celebrity

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"I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it."

Sean Bean, English Actor

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"You cannot force a dry well to yield water."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown."

Diana Cooper, English Celebrity

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"But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine."

Robert Smith, English Musician

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"Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post."

Bobby Heenan, American Entertainer

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"We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Limits are very important."

Colin Greenwood, British Musician

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"I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste."

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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

"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

"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

"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

"You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop."

Time

"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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