"I've had to do all kinds of jobs……" — Peter Wright
"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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13 Quotes by Peter Wright
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As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could…
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I tried to learn the violin for a while.
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I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a…
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I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.
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I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so…
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I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in…
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I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation,…
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Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
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You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.
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When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people…
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I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the…
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I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the…
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