Peter Wright Quotes

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• 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…
• I tried to learn the violin for a while.
• 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…
• I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
• You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.
• When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.
• I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the…
• 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…
• I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

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