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 anthropologists who dig up the art from the past. You can see the refinement in the… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
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 see something or someone beautiful, the next time you hear it, it sounds different. So you… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
