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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything simple always interests me.
- Envision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
- Portrait
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- Nov 07, 2020
And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
- Claustrophobic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
- Photograph
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are enough no smoking places now.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
- Cubism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a natural sceptic.
- Nov 07, 2020
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.
- English
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt very English.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
- Nov 07, 2020
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
- Prizes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't value prizes of any sort.
- Nov 07, 2020
I value my friends.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
- Nov 07, 2020
I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
- Literary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tragedy is a literary concept.
- Nov 07, 2020
Spring is very energising to me.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've realized that I can do performances.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.
- California
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- Nov 07, 2020
California is always in my mind.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
- Early Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
- Nov 07, 2020
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer living in color.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not antisocial. I like people.
- Invention
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
- Fraction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
- 1950s
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020