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Really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems.

— Gilbert & George

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

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)

But we don't want to think. It's exhausting enough without that. We didn't think when we did the Ginkgo Pictures, at all. Afterwards we found out all this stuff about them.

Gilbert and George in the mirror (2005)

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Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people.

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