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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
Dynamic
Find
Muscle
Painting
Should
Some
Tenderness
Too
Tough
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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
Art
Becomes
Film
History
Inevitably
Made
Matter
Paint
Part
Soon
Toss
Tradition
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
~ Gary Hume
Artist
Being
Get
Lonelier
Older
Think
You
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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
Human
I Can
Make
Political
Political Work
State
Work
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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
Change
Euphoria
Happen
Know
Labour
Made
Moment
Once
Only
Painting
People
Person
Pictures
Then
Voice
Vote
Voted
Will
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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
Behind
Entirely
Feels
Fluid
Found
Gloss
Highly
Intrigue
Layers
Like
Look
Looking
Me
Means
Paint
Picture
Pool
Qualities
Reflection
Reflective
Still
Suited
Surface
Then
Which
You
Yourself
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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
Am
Assistant
Bit
Comprehend
Difficult
Editor
Else
Few
Film
Found
Going
Got
How
Incredibly
Job
Lasted
Make
Really
Someone
Thought
Which
Would
Write
Writing
Years
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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
Always
Doing
Go
Me
Mine
Painting
Says
Servant
Wants
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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
Ability
Another
Artist
Certain
Given
Got
I Can
Just
Painting
See
Something
Take
Thing
Transform
Which
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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
About
Away
Death
Everything
Far
Far Away
Go
Help
Just
Leaving
Like
Make
Me
Never
Something
Things
You
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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
Been
Discarded
Electricity
Everything
Found
Get
Going
Had
Job
Keep
Keep Going
Lived
Made
Nothing
Paper
Stole
Stuff
Things
Used
Where
Worked
Years
You
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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
Annual
Brief
Countryside
Full
Growing
Growing Up
I Love
Kent
Love
Memories
See
Special
Spectacle
Up
Wood
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I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
~ Gary Hume
Feminine
I Think
More
Picasso
Than
Think
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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
Full
Gorgeous
Paint
Perfect
Sadness
Something
Want
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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
Because
Bit
Boots
Bored
Disappear
Front
Galleries
Getting
Give
I Can
Like
Long
Long Time
Look
Looking
Much
Paintings
People
Slower
So Much Time
Spend
Them
Time
Without
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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
About
Enough
Enough Time
Fascinated
More
More And More
My Own
Never
Obsession
Own
Pleasure
Time
Until
Work
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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
Creative
Creativity
Day
Doing
Half
Hour
Just
Make
Necessary
Rest
Time
Visible
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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
Because
Become
Better
Develop
Explore
Final
Going
Happen
Like
Me
More
More And More
Pure
Really
Refined
See
Something
State
Think
Want
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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
Agents
Am
Bit
Concrete
Desperate
Drawn
Feeling
Go
I Am
Like
Magazines
News
Out
Particular
Poetry
Rack
Realise
Second-Hand
Stand
Start
Then
Things
Through
Why
Wondering
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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
After
Always
Ambition
Become
Bits
Buy
Friends
Help
Hopefully
House
Idea
Make
No Idea
Out
Part
People
Pictures
Plan
Rich
Studio
Them
Then
Would
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