There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.
When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever - … - Douglas Portway
When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever - …
- Douglas Portway
Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the object and i… - Douglas Portway
Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the object and i…
I want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside. - Douglas Portway
I want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside.
Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is mo… - Douglas Portway
Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is mo…
Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art. - Douglas Portway
Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.
There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a pictur… - Douglas Portway
There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a pictur…
My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the emanation of the paintin… - Douglas Portway
My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the emanation of the paintin…
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in their fusion to achieve a 'wholenes… - Douglas Portway
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in their fusion to achieve a 'wholenes…
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