It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to p…

- Squeak Carnwath

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, h…

- Squeak Carnwath

Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing…

- Squeak Carnwath

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.

- Squeak Carnwath

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable…

- Squeak Carnwath

Painting is an investigation of being.

- Squeak Carnwath

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What w…

- Squeak Carnwath

I want painting to be my flashlight.

- Squeak Carnwath