When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever - …

- Douglas Portway

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

- Douglas Portway

I want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside.

- Douglas Portway

Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is mo…

- Douglas Portway

Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the object and i…

- Douglas Portway

There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a pictur…

- Douglas Portway

I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in their fusion to achieve a 'wholenes…

- Douglas Portway

My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the emanation of the paintin…

- Douglas Portway