The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.

- Mike Svob

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and t…

- Mike Svob

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have mor…

- Mike Svob

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

- Mike Svob

The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a them…

- Mike Svob

Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or so…

- Mike Svob

The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.

- Mike Svob

All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

- Mike Svob

The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most d…

- Mike Svob