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.…

- Graham Sutherland

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

- Graham Sutherland

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

- Graham Sutherland

I don't think anyone is free

- Graham Sutherland

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 …

- Graham Sutherland

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

- Graham Sutherland

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 thes…

- Graham Sutherland