31 Quotes by Gary Hume

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.

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.

I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

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.

I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

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.