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Graham Sutherland Quotes:

Graham Sutherland quotes

Ocupation: Artist

Life: August 24, 1903 - February 17, 1980

Birthday: August 24

Death: February 17

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I don't think anyone is free

Topics: Thinking, Prison

quote in painting you have to destroy in order to gain you have got to sacrifice something graham sutherland Quotes

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.

source: - Graham Vivian Sutherland, John T. Hayes (1977). “Portraits by Graham Sutherland”

Topics: Character, Roots, Personality

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.

Topics: Unique, Encounters, Recognition, Shiver

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...

Topics: Sacrifice, Order, Risk

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

Topics: Eye, Painting, Materials

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

Topics: Real, Looks, Made

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

Topics: Thinking, Prison

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