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Graham Sutherland Quotes

1903–1980 England

Graham Vivian Sutherland (24 August 1903 – 17 February 1980) was an English artist, who focused on the inherent strangeness of natural forms, and abstracting them, sometimes giving his work a surrealist appearance. He also painted many portraits.

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Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so.

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.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Graham Sutherland (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.