Graham Sutherland Quotes

#1. In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain ... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk ...

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#2. I don't think anyone is free

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#3. Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

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#4. The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so.

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#5. I see something - some conjunction of forms - which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I have been looking at there is contained a unique series of rhythms ... A shiver down the spine arrives to prove the validity of such an encounter.

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#6. I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

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#7. It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.

Graham Sutherland