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You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.
- Peter Wright
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#Decide
#Go
#Stop
#Time
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
- Peter Wright
#Art
#Own
#Painting
#Picture
#Stand
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.
- Peter Wright
#Meditation
#Observation
#Own
#People
I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.
- Peter Wright
#Clothes
#Landscapes
#Now
#People
#Place
I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.
- Peter Wright
#Find
#Limits
#Person
#Picture
#Way
I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.
- Peter Wright
#Best
#I Am
#Life
#Painting
#Start
I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.
- Peter Wright
#Dirty
#Never
#Painting
#School
I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.
- Peter Wright
#Alive
#Gift
#Life
#Living
#New
I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.
- Peter Wright
#Had
#Kinds
#Mine
#Pay
#Rent
When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.
- Peter Wright
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#Look
#Old
#People
#Work
I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?
- Peter Wright
#Know
#Look
#Me
#Painting
#Start
I tried to learn the violin for a while.
- Peter Wright
#I Tried
#Learn
#Tried
#Violin
#While
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
- Peter Wright
#Avoid
#Difficulties
#Escape
#Romantic
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