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Gary Hume

English

May 9, 1962

Artist

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The surface is all you get of me.

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I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

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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.

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

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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.

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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.

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