“My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.” TaughtColorPaintingTrainingIllustrationSelective Author:Burton Silverman
“The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.” IfsWayKindEnergyEffortPaintingExcitingGet UpCentsFinishing Author: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 Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?” PeopleKindTakenPaintingPhotographBusyErasDaily LifeMuseumsFrankIntroducingDisdainCuratorCartierHenri Cartier Bresson Author: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.” PeopleMomentsPaintingOur TimeTimelessTimeliness Author:Burton Silverman
