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

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

Art is the most important way of recording history.

- Pat Steir

I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.

- Pat Steir

Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.

- 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…

- Pat Steir

To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

- 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…

- Pat Steir