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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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I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting. Georg Baselitz

Painting About Attacked Feel Always Asked

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on. Georg Baselitz

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation. Georg Baselitz

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An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up. George Catlin

Winter First Down Back Hundred Hundred Times Severity Lodge Indian Dress Clean Through Taken Put Also His Up Times Wet Which Skins Stands Even Deer Rains Soft

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun. George Catlin

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I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization. George Catlin

Men Past Approach Melting Civilization Noble Red Over Boundless Contemplated Prairie Spread Years Forests Races Who Many Now Away

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. George Catlin

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. George Grosz

Art Culture Old Bourgeoisie Collapsing Ploy Standing Keep Defend

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either. George Grosz

War Thought Would Never Perhaps End Did Either

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self. George Grosz

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The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. George Grosz

Business Genius Personality Profit Promote Only Poets Individuality Greater Cult Itself Personage Which Really Painters

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind. George Grosz

Peace Joy Drunk Stricken Blind Were Us

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it. George Grosz

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