"The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the……" — Burton Silverman

"The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture."

— Burton Silverman

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16 Quotes by Burton Silverman

Burton Silverman has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a…
My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my…
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.…
I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from…
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,…
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the…
I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events…
I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my…
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…

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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