31 Quotes by Gary Hume

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.

My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

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.

Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.

The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.

The surface is all you get of me.

All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

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.

I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.