Top 15 Gary Hume Quotes

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My desire to be an artist really came out of being brok

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.
Gary Hume
I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
Gary Hume
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.
Gary Hume
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
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
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
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.
Gary Hume
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.
Gary Hume
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.
Gary Hume
The surface is all you get of me.
Gary Hume
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.
Gary Hume
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
I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
Gary Hume
I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
Gary Hume
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
Gary Hume