15 Gary Hume Quotes for You to Enjoy

Gary Hume

English Artist

Born: May 9, 1962

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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

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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

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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older. Gary Hume

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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

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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

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The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised. Gary Hume

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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