Quotes by Gary Hume - Page 1

I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
Gary Hume / Artist
Feminine
More Than Think
More Think Than
Picasso
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Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.
Gary Hume / Artist
Somewhat
Door
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The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
Gary Hume / Artist
Art School
Disenfranchised
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
Gary Hume / Artist
Lonelier
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The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.
Gary Hume / Artist
Doors
Perfect
Relief
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I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
Gary Hume / Artist
Gorgeous
Paint
Perfect
Sadness
Full
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
Gary Hume / Artist
Mum
Visual
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
Gary Hume / Artist
Political Work
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A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.
Gary Hume / Artist
Tenderness
Tough
Muscle
Dynamic
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
Gary Hume / Artist
Countryside
Memories
Annual
Brief
Spectacle
Wood
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I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.
Gary Hume / Artist
Creative
Half
Visible
Rest
Hour
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Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.
Gary Hume / Artist
Patient
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I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
Gary Hume / Artist
Informing
Painting
Servant
Me Doing Always
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
Gary Hume / Artist
Being Broke
Broke
Driven
Incapable
Unemployed
Holding
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I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.
Gary Hume / Artist
Far Away
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
Gary Hume / Artist
Enough Time
Fascinated
Obsession
Time Work Enough
More And More
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All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.
Gary Hume / Artist
Paint
Toss
Tradition
Inevitably
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
Gary Hume / Artist
Museums
Narrative
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I don't vote. I voted Labour once, in that moment of euphoria. I know that if people only made a voice for change, then change will happen, but I'm not that person. I'm painting pictures.
Gary Hume / Artist
Euphoria
Labour
Vote
Pictures
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
Gary Hume / Artist
Painting
Transform
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
Gary Hume / Artist
Boots
Bored
Disappear
Time Long Look
Galleries
Time Look Long
Paintings
Slower
So Much Time
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Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.
Gary Hume / Artist
Duration
Rare
Envisaged
Outset
Reasonably
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It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.
Gary Hume / Artist
Ambition
Bits
No Idea
Rich
Buy
Pictures
Plan
Studio
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I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.
Gary Hume / Artist
Discarded
Electricity
Stole
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I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.
Gary Hume / Artist
Assistant
Comprehend
Editor
Lasted
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I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.
Gary Hume / Artist
Pure
Refined
Me Better See
Explore
More And More
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
Gary Hume / Artist
Companion
Demand
Drawing
Work Myself Start
Something Else
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If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
Gary Hume / Artist
Agents
Concrete
Desperate
Magazines
News
Particular
Second Hand
Drawn
Rack
Realise
Wondering
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I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.
Gary Hume / Artist
Feels
Fluid
Gloss
Intrigue
Layers
Paint
Pool
Reflection
Surface
Picture
Behind
Entirely
Look Me Yourself
Highly
Qualities
Reflective
Suited
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
Gary Hume / Artist
Approach
Bothered
Looks
No Point
Painting
Taken
Rules
History Me People
Describe
Mine
Wherever
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