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Peter Wright Inspirational Quotes (8)

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I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.
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I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?
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Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
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When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.
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I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.
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I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.
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I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.
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I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.
Peter Wright