Art Quote by Michael Portillo

“People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects…

— Alasdair Gray

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

— Roddy Woomble

Scotland through the eyes of an artist is a many layered series of discoveries. It's stunning castles, mystical landscape, secret glens and tucked within…

— Kunal Kapoor

I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but I am…

— Peter Doig

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised…

— Georg Baselitz

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however…

— Julian Schnabel

My Scottish grandfather, John W. Blyth, was a man addicted to paintings. A manufacturer of linen, he spent all his surplus money on pictures.

— Michael Portillo

Whenever I'm in Edinburgh, which I visit often, I always try to hop on a train to Kirkcaldy to visit the art gallery, where…

— Michael Portillo

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its…

— Sara Sheridan

We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.

— Greg Proops

My grandfather, who is English, was a member of a gentleman's club called the Caledonian, which you can only be a member of if…

— Rupert Friend

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its…

— Sara Sheridan