I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting. Gary Hume Read Quote
It’s not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I’d buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs – but I’ve no idea after that. Gary Hume Read Quote
I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle. Gary Hume Read Quote
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. Gary Hume Read Quote
People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I’m not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I’ve taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else’s. Gary Hume Read Quote
I don’t make political work. I don’t make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can. Gary Hume Read Quote
A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic. Gary Hume Read Quote
