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'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

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

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 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

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