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 Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people? — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
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 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind… — 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 Image
Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
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 Image
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
