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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.
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No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
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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.
