I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

- Burton Silverman

I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.

- Burton Silverman

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a…

- Burton Silverman

My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthles…

- Burton Silverman

I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of f…

- Burton Silverman

I am wedded to who I am.

- Burton Silverman

In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane …

- Burton Silverman

I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

- Burton Silverman

We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seei…

- Burton Silverman