Peter Wright Quotes & Sayings
13 most famous Peter Wright quotes and sayings (celebrity). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.”
“I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.”
“You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.”
“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?”
“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.”
“I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.”
“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.”
“I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.”
“I tried to learn the violin for a while.”
“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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