Peter Wright Quotes (27 Quotes)

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

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.

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.

We have a lot of experience going in. We've been here numerous times.

As a team, we're starting to hit our stride. I think we're playing the type of tennis we need to be at this time of year.

It's my first time playing this tournament in a number of years. I'm going to have a good time with this.

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.

We bounced back from the loss against Baylor. It was a much-needed win for us.

We're where we need to be right now. Our chemistry is good.

Yes, it's clearly libellous. But if we don't publish it, we don't deserve to be in the business.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

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.

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.

It's a team in their infancy. This is a good opportunity for them to get more comfortable playing with each other.

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?

You have to go out there where there's nothing beneath your feet. You have to get out of your box and do the things you know you can't do.

A lot of those commodity stocks are pretty reasonably priced and we would continue to see gains in that sector, though they would be moderate.

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.

It's a tournament, so anything could happen. There's a lot of tennis over four days. My attitude is looking at it one match at a time, but several of our guys have an opportunity to win it.

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

People are betting on strong earnings growth for miners, and the argument is that metal prices will stay firm, if not climb up,

one of the top Metro baseball players over the past three seasons.

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

I was pleased with our hitting. We only struck out twice. Overall I was pleased with how we played our first game. On defense we only committed one error.

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.

This is a great step forward. They do say they're not giving legal advice, but they are certainly making it easy enough to have access.