Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can’t often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space. Gary Hume Read Quote
I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, ‘How am I going to make a film if I can’t write?’ I didn’t really comprehend that someone else would do that bit. Gary Hume Read Quote
One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, ‘I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,’ so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image. Gary Hume Read Quote
I like things that are just about to go. Everything’s leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can’t help but be in it. Gary Hume Read Quote
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. Gary Hume Read Quote
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. Gary Hume Read Quote
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. Gary Hume Read Quote
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around. Gary Hume Read Quote
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. Gary Hume Read Quote