Graham Sutherland quotes:

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

I don't think anyone is free

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

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.

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.

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

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...