Alive 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…

— Burton Silverman

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

— Burton Silverman

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…

— Burton Silverman

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

— Burton Silverman

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

— Burton Silverman

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

— Burton Silverman

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

— Burton Silverman

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

— Burton Silverman

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

— Burton Silverman

I am wedded to who I am.

— Burton Silverman

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

— Burton Silverman

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

— Burton Silverman