Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have anthropologists who dig up the art from the past. You can see the refinement in the society by the art. And people will see our lack of refinement when they dig up our art.
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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