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 ...

Graham Sutherland

#2. Selfishness is the root of every sin.

Anonymous

#3. I don't think anyone is free

Graham Sutherland

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

Graham Sutherland

#5. You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.

Cilla Black

#6. The poet is a pure spring from which all thirsty souls may drink.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Graham Sutherland

#8. Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.

Larry Watson

#9. I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

Jeff Corwin

#10. 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.

Graham Sutherland

#11. In a perfect world, there would always be communication and consultation between partners. But we don't live in that world. There are emergencies and dangerous, vindictive people.

Sylvain Reynard

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

Graham Sutherland

#13. After marriage, all things change. And one of them better be you.

Elizabeth Hawes

#14. 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