To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer. — 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
