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If you are submerged in normal life, then your view will be normal. So we have to keep separate from normal life in order to be able to say something that is not known. People come to art for something that they don’t understand, that’s not in their life already.

— Gilbert & George

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To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.

Really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems.

We want our Art to bring out the Bigot from inside the Liberal and conversely to bring out the Liberal from inside the Bigot.

We think of our art as just pictures, not as photographs. We are using photography, not being photographers.

A clergyman once said to us, "Jealousy is a bad thing. But I must confess that I am sometimes jealous of the artist because the artist is closer to creation."

Gilbert and George in the mirror (2005)

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