Graham Sutherland quotes
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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 SutherlandSource : Graham Vivian Sutherland, John T. Hayes (1977). “Portraits by Graham Sutherland”
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“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.”
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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...”
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“Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.”
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“The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so.”
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“I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.”
-- Graham Sutherland
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Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.
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“Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”
Source : "Fictional character: V". "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982 - 1986.
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“The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.”
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“I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.”
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“I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.”
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