JORG IMMENDORFF

"The life force of art knows nothing of normal time. It makes itself known irregularly, affecting both our understanding of the past and our ability to cope with the future. What we really need is another concept of time in order to grasp the essentials of art."
Jorg Immendorff

PETER DOIG

"I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented."
Peter Doig

LUC TUYMANS

"I was discussing an article in the newspaper with my wife because I had read this rather sexist comment by our minister of foreign affairs in Belgium, and he said that he’d met this woman, Condoleezza Rice, who was at that point visiting our country. He said that she was “a strong woman and not unpretty.” And I said to myself, “That’s it.”
Luc Tuymans

CECILY BROWN

'I think when I was doing a lot of sexual paintings,' she remembers, 'what I wanted - in a way that I think now is too literal - was for the paint to embody the same sensations that bodies would. Oil paint very easily suggests bodily fluids and flesh.'
Cecily Brown

GERHARD RICHTER

''If the Abstract Pictures show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. This is a grossly oversimplified, off-balance way of putting it, of course; but though these pictures are motivated by the dream of a classical order and a pristine world - by nostalgia, in other words - the anachronism in them takes on a subversive and contemporary quality.''
Gerhard Richter

DAMIEN HIRST

Do you take lots of drugs?
Damien Hirst: Er yeah, I'm trying not to. I guess so. Nothing really dangerous. I don't really buy any, but I have a lot of friends who do, so I go out sober and say I'm not gonna take any drugs and then I end up drunk and do it. And then wake up the next day and say I'm never doing that again.