Peter Wright Quotations

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

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

There are physicians in our county who are accepting patients.

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

Lennart is getting better. This tournament is part of his recovery.

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

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.

He fought hard and showed a lot of guts. I don't even think he's quite back at 100 percent.

We're optimistic the momentum we've created will continue throughout the forthcoming year.

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

The Arizona schools are good teams. The fact that we can sweep them in a year says a lot about our team.

Most of the people here think this is the best-kept secret in Baton Rouge. If you're wondering what the dirty little secret is, there isn't one. We're just north of Florida Boulevard, that's all.

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

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

We get to determine our own fate. That is very exciting to me.

We had a positive weekend last week (against Arizona and Arizona State). We're looking to build on those performances.

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.

What disappointed me most was that only three of our players performed to their potential.

Brock pitched extremely well for five innings, but tired in the sixth. Ethan was strong in closing the game.

Ethan continues to swing a hot bat going 2-for-3.

After (the first set), he played pretty high quality tennis. He just couldn't hold down the match.

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.

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.

They're going to be playing as hard as they can. And we're going to be playing even harder.

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.

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

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

Daniel came through in a high-pressure situation. He did a good job of keeping his focus during the (one-hour) break.

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.