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“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.” BelieveRealityPaintingIllusionBlueWingsInvisibleVisibleLeapBugsLeap Of Faith Book:Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery
“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.” PeopleTryingHardJobsJealousyJealousAmbitiousSupportiveGet Jealous Author:Squeak Carnwath
“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.” HumansArtJobsArtistConsciousnessResponsibilityProduceMirrorsReverseDocumentsMirror Image Book:Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery
“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.” WayRealFilmFormWaterPaintingPaintBoundsPlanesGravitySculpturePigment Book:Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery
“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.” WorldInformationPaintingSourceRemainsVisiblePrincipalAbsent Book:Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery
“Painting is an investigation of being.” PaintingInvestigation Book:Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery
“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.” KindSelfVoiceAttentionPaintingListeningResponsePay Attention Author:Squeak Carnwath