Afar Quote by Stephen Beal

I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to…

— Stephen Beal

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

— Arthur Smith

I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying…

— Susan Rothenberg

I started collecting art... simply because I wanted pictures to hang on the wall. I noticed what a difference a picture could make to…

— Michael Audain

On one level, I'm interested in how the space dictates the effect visually - how the composition of a given work changes depending on…

— Landon Metz

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

— Jasper Johns

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

— Bridget Riley

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

— Mike Svob

In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.

— Francesca DiMattio

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault

The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and…

— Malcolm Morley