Testimonials

“My aim is to always get hold of the magic reality and to transfer this reality into painting – to make the invisible visible through reality.” – Max Beckmann (1884-1950)

“It is not the subject that matters but the translation of the subject into the abstraction of the surface by means of painting.” – Max Beckmann (1884-1950)

“The essence of a painting is the expression of certain relationships between the painter and the outside world, and that a picture is the intimate association of these relationships with the [...]

“Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, aesthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or [...]

“Any art which has imagination, has the “magic touch” and expresses universal truths which man can feel and understand, is valid–is ART.” – Philip Evergood (1901-1973)

“Painting is a tangible, sensory experience, an intense “being stirred” by the joy and the tragedy of man. A spatial experience which, nourished by instinct, becomes a living form. I try to [...]

“Through pictures, our passions touch. Pictures are vehicles of passion, of all kinds and orders, not pretty luxuries like sports cars. In our society, the capacity to give and to receive passion [...]

“Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement—meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object.” – D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

“A picture lives with the life you put into it. If you put no “life” into it-no thrill, no concentration of delight or exaltation of visual discovery-then the picture is dead, like so [...]

“Some painters flutter all about their subjects, others are straight drivers to the essence of things. A house has many windows, but a ray of light catches on one. It becomes the window which [...]

“All art that is worthwhile is a record of intense life, and each individual artist’s work is a record of his special effort, search and findings, in language especially chosen by himself and [...]

“Everything depends on “the attitude of the artist toward his subject”. It is the one great essential.” – Robert Henri (1865-1929)

“When we look at anything, we see beyond the objects we draw. We should draw with this spiritual sight. Thus, the measure of a painting is the conception of the artist. The value of a work of art [...]

“The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea. He should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express. If his will is not strong, he will [...]

“There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a canvas, others only appear when you are far away. To paint is to know how to put nothing on a canvas, and have it look like something [...]

“That which is worth while in a landscape is the expression of human emotion in it.” – Robert Henri (1865-1929)

“Low art is just telling things; as, There is the night. High art gives the feel of the night. The latter is nearer reality although the former is a copy. A painter should be interested not in [...]