Famous British Artists - Painters, Sculptors &
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Famous quotes and profiles of famous British artists
that are based in or born in the country of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain. Artists include
painters, photographers, sculptors, designers, printmakers,
and more.
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+ I think that the very earliest influence was a
horror of having to work in a bank or an office,
a desire for a free and creative life. |
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+ The job of the artist is always to deepen the
mystery. |
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The holy grail is to spend less time making the
picture than it takes people to look at it. |
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced
by another language. I don’t know what to say
about what I paint, really. |
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One of the wonderful things about a museum is how
you're jolted into confronting art from strange
and wonderful civilizations and you look and learn
and expand your horizons. |
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes
all through me. |
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible
things before breakfast. |
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At some point we’ve got to stop asking ourselves
what is the meaning of everything, maybe it’s
not so very important what it means. It’s probably
more important what the sense of it is.. they are
two very basic and different things. |
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I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts. |
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+ I’m a terrible cook, but if I could cook,
I would see that as art as well, it’s how much
creative energy you put into something. |
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+ I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt
he was giving art what he thought it previously
lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination
with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what
I can't do. |
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A clergyman once said to us, "Jealousy is a
bad thing. But I must confess that I am sometimes
jealous of the artist because the artist is closer
to creation". (George) |
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Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful
thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but
art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps
change direction.. they are completely different. |
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I think art is good at looking back and looking
forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on.
At the end of the day, people are more important
than paintings. |
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+ There comes a point where you see it all
as completely empty being a popular artist to the
extent that people who are not necessarily interested
in art know about things or take some little interest.
I think that now for me it's a burden. It's a bit
hard to deal with and it wastes time as well. |
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We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it
as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness. |
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+ There are some people who don't like museums because
they think of them as tombs, or something negative.
I've always loved them. They are to me lighthouses
of utopianism and social well-being. |
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There are universal shapes to which everyone is
subconsciously conditioned and to which they can
respond if their conscious control does not shut
them off. |
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Every change is a form of liberation. My mother
used to say a change is always good even if it's
for the worse. |
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For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism
of visual forces.. an event rather than an appearance.
These forces can only be tackled by treating color
and form as ultimate identities, freeing them from
all descriptive or functional roles. |
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+ There are no rules about investment. Sharks can
be good. Artist’s dung can be good. Oil on
canvas can be good. There’s a squad of conservators
out there to look after anything an artist decides
is art. |
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+ I like making work in my studio day in and day
out, but I'm not so interested in the business side. |
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