Graham Sutherland quotes

“I don't think anyone is free”
-- Graham Sutherland

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“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

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

#Character Quotes #Roots Quotes #Personality Quotes

“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

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“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

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“Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.”
-- Graham Sutherland

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“The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so.”
-- Graham Sutherland

#Real Quotes #Looks Quotes #Made Quotes

“I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.”
-- Graham Sutherland

#Thinking Quotes #Prison Quotes

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.”

“Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”

Source : "Fictional character: V". "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982 - 1986.

“The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.”

“If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.”

“I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.”

“I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.”