Graham Sutherland

Quotes

• “The kind of thing which I collect I can always carry back with me to the studio and study at leisure. I am fascinated by the whole problem of the tensions produced by the power of growth.”
• “It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.”
• “The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so.”
• “Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.”
• “In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain. You have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better.”

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