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"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."
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"Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them."
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"Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant."
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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."
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"My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits."
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"Limits are very important."
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"So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits."
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"Freedom is limited by the need to coexist."
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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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"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."
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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've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine."
Job
"When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them."
Work
"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
"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 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
"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
Painting
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