All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

- Patrick Swift

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

- Patrick Swift

I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension is the only word for it…

- Patrick Swift

For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international ar…

- Patrick Swift

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation…

- Patrick Swift

Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

- Patrick Swift

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without sham…

- Patrick Swift