Gary Hume Quotes
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.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
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The emotions you see when you watch 'Narcos,' they're pretty much my emotions and the way I would react if I were there. It's not something you create; all of us have everything inside ourselves.
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In Europe and Sweden, we see boobs on TV, and it's not a big deal. Everyone has them; everyone has seen them.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.
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You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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The first artist whose music I really got into was Paolo Nutini. When his album 'Sunny Side Up' came out, I think I listened to it on repeat for, like, six months.
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When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.
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I want a trouble-maker for a lover, blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, who burns like fire on the rushing sea.
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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.
