Art Quote by Burton Silverman

“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 logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.” quote by Burton Silverman — Download Open image

“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 logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.”

Burton Silverman

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Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.

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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, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?

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

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I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope…

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My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be…

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I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

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Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to…

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I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

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I am wedded to who I am.

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I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to…

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Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that…

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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…

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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