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 deathleavemake Change image and share on social
I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting. Gary Hume abilityartistpaint share on social
The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised. Gary Hume artdisenfranchisefranchise Change image and share on social
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. Gary Hume bitebootbore share on social
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 creativecreativityday Change image and share on social
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 changeconstantlyfact Change image and share on social
I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore. Gary Hume artistdevelopexplore share on social
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. Gary Hume fascinateobsessionpleasure Change image and share on social
I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job. Gary Hume discardelectricityfind share on social
It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that. Gary Hume ambitionbitbob share on social
