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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That’s what it was driven by for sure.

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Gary Hume

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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.

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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.

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April 28, 2024

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.

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April 28, 2024

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.

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