Burton Silverman Quotes

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• I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive…
• My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly…
• I am wedded to who I am.
• 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…
• I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.
• I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.
• 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,…
• The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.
• Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make…
• I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the…
• I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own…
• Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.
• Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be…
• I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to…
• I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.
• We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.

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