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.
I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's the spiritual aspect. Painting is a … - Pat Steir
I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's the spiritual aspect. Painting is a …
- Pat Steir
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 see something or someone beautifu… - Pat Steir
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 see something or someone beautifu…
An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one fears to know is often the … - Pat Steir
An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one fears to know is often the …
I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful. - Pat Steir
I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.
Art is the most important way of recording history. - Pat Steir
Art is the most important way of recording history.
I'm purposeless. I'm making art because I want you to look at that painting and I want it to affect you in some way, to change what you see, to chang… - Pat Steir
I'm purposeless. I'm making art because I want you to look at that painting and I want it to affect you in some way, to change what you see, to chang…
Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices. - Pat Steir
Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.
To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer. - Pat Steir
To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.
I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted. It… - Pat Steir
I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted. It…
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