--- title: "1 Painting Object Quotes By Pat Steir" description: "1 Painting Object quotes by Pat Steir. Plus more from Pat Steir and more Painting Object sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79b/pat-steir-31386_artist_painting-is-an-object-but-it-s-also-a-vo_2703523.jpg" --- > [Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/painting-is-an-object-but-it-s-also-a-voice-i-don-t-see-them-as/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-steir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79b/pat-steir-31386_artist_painting-is-an-object-but-it-s-also-a-vo_2703523.jpg) ## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/art-as-a-political-gesture-is-committed-to-making-something-beautiful/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-steir/) > [Art is the most important way of recording history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/art-is-the-most-important-way-of-recording-history/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-steir/) > [Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/every-piece-of-art-will-be-if-it-s-lucky-enough-to-be-dug-up-if-there/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/art-is-a-way-you-discover-the-past-and-so-it-brings-the-past-into-the/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-steir/) > [I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/i-have-my-moods-but-i-can-always-see-something-beautiful/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/the-spiritual-in-my-art-is-giving-up-control-my-paintings-are-based/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/i-consider-my-work-non-objective-and-i-think-abstract-is-an/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-steir/) > [To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/to-handle-paint-the-way-pollock-did-you-need-the-muscularity-of-a/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-steir/) > [Everything you do on Earth is political.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/everything-you-do-on-earth-is-political/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-steir/) > [Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/painting-is-an-object-but-it-s-also-a-voice-i-don-t-see-them-as/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/when-you-see-the-holy-halo-around-the-holy-heads-on-holy-paintings/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/we-live-in-a-time-when-people-are-afraid-of-beauty-because-beauty/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/an-artist-needs-to-become-familiar-with-that-which-is-most-hidden/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/i-want-art-to-affect-the-viewer-and-for-the-viewer-to-take-it-away-to/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/i-have-a-friend-who-says-a-beautiful-painting-can-cure-headaches-but/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-steir/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/painting-object/pat-steir/#itemlist", "name": "1 Painting Object Quotes By Pat Steir", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. 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