Objects Quote by Pat Steir Download Open image “Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.” — Pat Steir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Objects Painting Voice
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language,… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own. — Peter Wright Copy Share Image
A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Art as a political gesture is committed to making something beautiful, and then understanding what beauty is in your own time, because what we… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
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… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
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… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
When you see the holy halo around the holy heads on holy paintings - the halo is a bright light so you can't see… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
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… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
How do you, on the one hand, not object to Hillary Clinton being elected, and then, on the other hand, tell people, "Elect me… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions. — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image