“The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.” LightPaintingShapesElementsHarmonyThemeVisualsColourRepetition Author:Mike Svob
“All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.” IdeasRealityPaintingAbstractRepresentationTrue Reality Author:Mike Svob
“In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.” WorldWellsKindRealMightTodayHumanitySurvivalTransformationPersonal Transformation Author:Stanislav Grof
“That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.” FirstsDoeRealityArtistSpeakAudienceCompositionViewers Author:Mike Svob
“When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work.” LooksArtistWatchesNovelPiecesPaintingCompositionTotality Author:Mike Svob
“By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.” MovingPaintingAmountAreasContrastObservers Author:Mike Svob
“The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results.” LongSoulProcessDifficultResultsDiscoveryExploration Author:Mike Svob
“The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.” WayArtImportantRealityCreativeVirtueCapableDeterminedWideHardestArtisticEndeavorEarningCreative ArtGood Living Author:Mike Svob
“A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.” DoeHappensOrderPaintingElementsMessagesImportanceAccidents Author:Mike Svob