Gary Hume Quotes

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

I'm not a designer, I'm a creator.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.