I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

Next quotes

• Gary Hume:

  I don't vote. I voted Labour once, in that moment of euphoria. I know that if people only made a vo

• Gary Hume:

  The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.

• Gary Hume:

  The surface is all you get of me.

• Gary Hume:

  I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made t

• Gary Hume:

  It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and

• Gary Hume:

  I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

• Gary Hume:

  I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories

• Gary Hume:

  I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and

• Gary Hume:

  I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintin

• Gary Hume:

  My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around