Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Graham Sutherland

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English artist Graham Sutherland.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Graham Vivian Sutherland was a prolific English artist. Notable for his paintings of abstract landscapes and for his of portraits of public figures, Sutherland also worked in other media, including printmaking, tapestry and glass design.

English - Artist | August 24, 1903 - February 17, 1980

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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

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

Graham Sutherland

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

Graham Sutherland

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

I don't think anyone is free

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

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

Graham Sutherland

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Graham Sutherland

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