Artist Quotes by Joseph Plaskett

All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years…

— Joseph Plaskett

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

— Joseph Plaskett

There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.

— Joseph Plaskett

An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called…

— Joseph Plaskett

I don't want to always be doing the same old thing.

— Joseph Plaskett

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.

— Joseph Plaskett

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea…

— Joseph Plaskett

My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done…

— Joseph Plaskett

The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

— Joseph Plaskett

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when…

— Joseph Plaskett

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever…

— Joseph Plaskett

I had always made pictures as I thought I saw the world, focusing on what lay in front, but this is not how one…

— Joseph Plaskett

The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a…

— Joseph Plaskett

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

— Joseph Plaskett

Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float…

— Joseph Plaskett