JULIAN OPIE

"What happened was I had a commission to draw Kate Moss. She came round to the studio, and while I was photographing her face, I also photographed her whole body as she was standing there. (I was too shy to ask her to take her top off or anything, which was a bit silly in hindsight, because I know now that Gary Hume got her completely naked that same week.)"
Julian Opie

STELLA VINE

"What influences and inspires you?
Joan of Arc, Balthus, Jean Michael-Basquiat, Anna Bjerger, Pauline Boty, Charlotte & Emily Bronte, Dolly & Jemima Brown, Lewis Carroll, Dawn Clements, Matt Collishaw, The Cramps, John Currin, Charles Dickens, Oriana Fox, Katy Jane Garside, Tracey Emin, Tanya Fairey, Rachel Feinstein, PJ Harvey, Sigrid Holmwood, Paul Housley, Chantal Joffe, Brad Kahlhamner, Frida Kahlo, Alex Katz, Martin Kippenberger, Dietmar Lutz, Sarah Lucas, Alex Gene Morrison, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Pat O’Connor, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Peyton, The Shaggs, The Raincoats, Edie Sedgewick, Le Tigre, Luc Tuymans, Sophie Von Hellermann, Francis Upritchard, Andy Warhol."
Stella Vine

MATTHIAS WEISCHER

"My paintings are made of mistakes, there are many layers in each painting, many pictures are built up to produce one final picture."
Matthias Weischer

MARLENE DUMAS

"Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright."
Marlene Dumas

MARTIN KIPPENBERGER

"People come along [in twenty years or so] and can say what the work and the artist were really all about. What people will say about me then -- or maybe not say -- will be the only thing that finally counts. Whether or not I contributed to spreading a good mood. What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood".
Martin Kippenberger

WILHELM SASNAL

"I never believed in excuses such as "I can't paint because I don't have a studio." No, this is only an excuse. I think the point is that you must also adjust to the circumstances of the space you have."
Wilhelm Sasnal