Artist Quotes by Pat Steir

Art as a political gesture is committed to making something beautiful, and then understanding what beauty is in your own time, because what we…

— Pat Steir

Art is the most important way of recording history.

— Pat Steir

Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.

— Pat Steir

Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have…

— Pat Steir

I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.

— Pat Steir

The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is…

— Pat Steir

I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted. It relates…

— Pat Steir

To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

— Pat Steir

Everything you do on Earth is political.

— Pat Steir

Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.

— Pat Steir

When you see the holy halo around the holy heads on holy paintings - the halo is a bright light so you can't see…

— Pat Steir

We live in a time when people are afraid of beauty, because beauty passes; you can't hang on to it. And even if you…

— Pat Steir

An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one…

— Pat Steir

I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's the spiritual…

— Pat Steir

I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more! I want…

— Pat Steir