“The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.” Quote by Gary Hume
“We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.” IfsHardFactsResultsDestinyMastersRealizationBehavePresumptionPomposity Author:Billy Childish
“Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.” KnowsWayI CanFantasticLimitation Author:Billy Childish
“Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsWholeJoyEasyForgetToo MuchPositionJudgmentCriticsSakeCompareBetrayContemplating Author:Antony Gormley
“We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.” IfsKindArtFactsEyeMovingPurposeGoal Author:Antony Gormley
“I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions.” ThinkingArtStillsAnswersArt Is Author:Marc Quinn
“I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that's like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There's something primal about it. It's innate, the need to make marks. That's why, when you're a child, you scribble.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsChildrenArtLanguageOur LivesPaintingOppositesMarkInnatePrimalAlgorithmsScribblesConceptual Art Author:Jenny Saville
“The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who get to the flesh. Visceral artists - Bacon, Freud. And de Kooning, of course. He's really my man. He doesn't depict anything, yet it's more than representation, it's about the meaning of existence and pushing the medium of paint.” MenFeelsArtBodyArtistCoursesExistencePaintFleshMediumsPushingRepresentationVisceral Author:Jenny Saville
“I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.” IfsFeelsPlayArtistAnxietyBrilliantContradictionDilemma Author:Jenny Saville
