Author: Gary Hume

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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

- Gary Hume

Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

- Gary Hume

The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.

The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.

- Gary Hume

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.

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.

- Gary Hume

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

- Gary Hume

All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

- Gary Hume

I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

- Gary Hume

I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

- Gary Hume

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