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> [Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-swift/art-if-it-is-successful-in-the-task-of-questioning-reality-if-it-is/)

[Patrick Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-swift/)

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## More by Patrick Swift

> [Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-swift/art-if-it-is-successful-in-the-task-of-questioning-reality-if-it-is/)

[Patrick Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-swift/)

> [Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-swift/life-is-more-important-than-art-quantity-is-only-important-in-that/)

[Patrick Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-swift/)

> [The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-swift/the-painter-celebrates-life-where-he-finds-it-his-morality-is-the/)

[Patrick Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-swift/)

> [All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-swift/all-art-is-probably-erotic-in-its-ultimate-character-but-painting/)

[Patrick Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-swift/)

> [For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-swift/for-to-be-contemporary-is-not-necessarily-to-be-part-of-any-movement/)

[Patrick Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-swift/)

> [The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-swift/the-development-that-produces-great-art-is-a-moral-and-not-an/)

[Patrick Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-swift/)

> [I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-swift/i-believe-when-you-bring-say-a-plant-into-a-room-everything-in-that/)

[Patrick Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-swift/)

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