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We like to think that we’re forming our tomorrows, that we’re making pictures that don’t exist in reality, that maybe tomorrow will be a little bit more like our pictures than it would otherwise.

— 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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