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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in my own work.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even finished asking the question, I said, 'Impurity.' Because that's it.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you stand over on the edge of the west coast of Ireland and look west, you are looking at something you can't see, only imagine. You know America is there, and you can imagine it being there. But you're also looking into infinity, because you can see nothing.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really in the business of unifying these two tendencies that have been at odds in our human history for a very long time: the logical and the romantic.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to return abstraction to the people: in a sense, to popularize it without lowering the bar, which is a lot easier said than done.
- Finish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was extremely unhappy. That's not to say that my parents didn't love me. But it was traumatic, and of course, art doesn't come out of rosy gardens. It comes out of damage.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on the treadmill and look around at all of my paintings while I exercise. I try to stare them down to make them reveal their weaknesses. If they reveal weaknesses, they get repainted.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, the most important people in my life were my pet rabbit and Mary, mother of Jesus.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a genius footballer, a natural, two-footed centre-forward who had played for Arsenal juniors, but he was sent out to work aged 14 and so lived out his life in a frustrated, rageful way.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted my art to be global rather than local. I want to make paintings that people everywhere can relate to.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started at school. When I painted, all the girls would come and sit around me. I realised that this was a really good way to get girlfriends.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a teenager, I was very political.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the only one to go to university, and the last thing my dad wanted was for me to be an artist. But later on, when I bought him a house in the south of Spain, he thought it was all right then.
- Psychiatrist
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when he said that the Irish are impervious to psychoanalysis.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My art is based on impurity. You have to mix things from different refined cultures to get something raw, to make it go again.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that I make chords when I paint, so I think you would be listening to the cello. It's deep, and it's resonant. A lot of people have compared me to Brahms - that slightly melancholic sensuality that's highly structured. Well, that describes my work right there.
- Bus Driver
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think writers should have writer's block. I think they should write. Imagine you were a bus driver and you said, 'I've got bus driver's block.' Get over it.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020