Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Gillian Wearing

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British artist Gillian Wearing.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing CBE, RA is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett stands in London's Parliament Square.

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art. — © Gillian Wearing
When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.
If you ever make anything too literal you might as well forget it. It loses everything.
I taught myself to use a camera - it's not very difficult to use a camera, but I never bothered looking at any textbooks on how to make a picture. I had a much more casual relation to it. For me at the time it was much more about the process rather than the results.
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