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Art Quote by Pat Steir

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“Art as a political gesture is committed to making something beautiful, and then understanding what beauty is in your own time, because what we think of as beauty changes with time. The notion of beauty everywhere changes.”

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Art is the most important way of recording history.

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Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.

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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…

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I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.

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The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is…

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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…

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

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Everything you do on Earth is political.

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Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.

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When you see the holy halo around the holy heads on holy paintings - the halo is a bright light so you can't see…

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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…

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An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one…

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