I had always made pictures as I thought I saw the world, focusing on what lay in front, but this is not how one sees the world. It only frames the ce…

- Joseph Plaskett

I don't want to always be doing the same old thing.

- Joseph Plaskett

The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

- Joseph Plaskett

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed i…

- Joseph Plaskett

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need t…

- Joseph Plaskett

Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float on its own.

- Joseph Plaskett

My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done I want to share with the w…

- Joseph Plaskett

There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.

- Joseph Plaskett

The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of pain…

- Joseph Plaskett