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“I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted. It relates to something. Non-objective relates to nothing. It has no object.”

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Pat Steir

Pat Steir, born on April 10, 1940, is a renowned painter known for her unique abstract style and profound depiction of natural phenomena. more

“The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is not controlled. So I give up control, and that's the spiritual aspect of the work - taking what comes and relinquishing control. Although they look very controlled, they're really not, because it's all poured paint.”

Giving Looks Art I Can Spiritual Can Do Painting Giving Up Art Is Aspect Paint Controlled Relinquishing Relinquishing Control Giving Up Control

Author:Pat Steir

“I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more! I want it to cure the society of voting for Donald Trump.”

Want Littles Beautiful Bits Painting Trump Little Bit Cures Voting Headache Beautiful Paintings

Author:Pat Steir

“Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.”

Ifs Art Enough Pieces Lucky

Author:Pat Steir

“I'm purposeless. I'm making art because I want you to look at that painting and I want it to affect you in some way, to change what you see, to change how you see it. To change how you see something, whatever.”

Way Want Looks Art Painting Art Is I Want You

Author:Pat Steir

“I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's the spiritual aspect. Painting is a spiritual practice, but sometimes it is hard to give up control!”

Want Giving Art Sometimes Hard Spiritual Practice Painting Giving Up Aspect Embrace Viewers Spiritual Practice

Author:Pat Steir

“Everything you do on Earth is political.”

Earth Political

Author:Pat Steir

“Art as a political gesture is committed to making something beautiful, and then understanding what beauty is in your own time, because what we think of as beauty changes with time. The notion of beauty everywhere changes.”

Thinking Art Beautiful Political Understanding Notion Committed Gestures Something Beautiful Beauty Everywhere

Author:Pat Steir

“Shows like Game of Thrones, stories like that, only really come around once every 10, 15 years. I can't remember the last time a show has really caught the imagination that way. Maybe Star Wars back in the '70s.”

Way Years I Can War Stories Shows Lasts Remember Games Stars Imagination Caught Last Time Thrones

Author:Finn Jones

“Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.”

Voice Objects Painting

Author:Pat Steir

“Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have anthropologists who dig up the art from the past. You can see the refinement in the society by the art. And people will see our lack of refinement when they dig up our art.”

People Way Art Past Art Is Over The Past Refinement Anthropologists

Author:Pat Steir

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