For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works. — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity. — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development. — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
