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A clergyman once said to us, "Jealousy is a bad thing. But I must confess that I am sometimes jealous of the artist because the artist is closer to creation."

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Gilbert & George are a British artistic duo of Gilbert Proesch (born 1943) and George Passmore (born 1942), who have worked together as “living sculptures” since the late 1960s.

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George: We say that how we are that day made us do that picture and we have to respect that. If you have another thought, that's another picture; it would be another one.

We think of our art as just pictures, not as photographs. We are using photography, not being photographers.

We like to think that we’re forming our tomorrows, that we’re making pictures that don’t exist in reality, that maybe tomorrow will be a little bit more like our pictures than it would otherwise.

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