- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Disenfranchised
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The surface is all you get of me.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ambition
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020