Ivan Eyre quotes

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting that I am, then I won't see it.
-- Ivan Eyre

#Looks #Painting

Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.

It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.