Squeak Carnwath famous quotes

Painting is an investigation of being.
-- Squeak Carnwath

#Painting #Investigation

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 and foreign.
-- Squeak Carnwath

#Self #Voice #Listening

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 of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.
-- Squeak Carnwath

#Believe #Reality #Blue

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

#Jealousy #Jobs #People

I want painting to be my flashlight.
-- Squeak Carnwath

#Light #Want #Painting

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 produce a human document.
-- Squeak Carnwath

#Art #Jobs #Responsibility

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, however, real.
-- Squeak Carnwath

#Real #Water #Sculpture

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 we don't see anymore.
-- Squeak Carnwath

#World #Information #Painting

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.

Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new.

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.