Graham Sutherland

"The kind of thing which I collect I can always carry back with me to the studio and study at leisure. I am fascinated by the whole problem of the tensions produced by the power of growth."

"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."

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

"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."