I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its… — Burton Silverman Copy Share
Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together. — Burton Silverman Copy Share
In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane… — Burton Silverman Copy Share
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture. — Burton Silverman Copy Share
I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope… — Burton Silverman Copy Share
My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be… — Burton Silverman Copy Share
I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone. — Burton Silverman Copy Share
Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to… — Burton Silverman Copy Share
I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed. — Burton Silverman Copy Share
I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to… — Burton Silverman Copy Share
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that… — Burton Silverman Copy Share
I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come… — Burton Silverman Copy Share
The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75… — Burton Silverman Copy Share
We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing. — Burton Silverman Copy Share
