"People ask me where I find the starting point for my paintings. Well, here is this overwhelming historical moment that is so rich with possibility and I found it right there at the checkout counter along with the Snickers bars and Hello! magazine. You just have to be open to stuff all the time as an artist."
Gary Hume quoted in: Sean O’Hagan, “Gary Hume: ‘I couldn’t hold down a job. That’s why I became an artist”, The Guardian, 18 May 2013, online