Graham Sutherland Quotes & Sayings

It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things. — Graham Sutherland

The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so. — Graham Sutherland

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting. — Graham Sutherland

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain ... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk ... — Graham Sutherland

I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison. — Graham Sutherland

I don't think anyone is free — Graham Sutherland

I see something - some conjunction of forms - which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I have been looking at there is contained a unique series of rhythms ... A shiver down the spine arrives to prove the validity of such an encounter. — Graham Sutherland