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“I want painting to be my flashlight.”

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Squeak Carnwath

Squeak Carnwath is a mysterious artist known for his unique artistic style and works. His practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation art, often exploring the relationship between humans and nature, as well as social and political issues. more

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“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.”

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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.”

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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 cat is a dilettante in fur.”

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“Sunflowers are like people to me.”

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“Time is not important, but art is.”

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“The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.”

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“Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.”

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“It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.”

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“For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.”

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Book:The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment

Source: The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment

“Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.”

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Book:Brice Marden: Recent Paintings and Drawings : [catalogue of an Exhibition], September 23-21 October 1978, The Pace Gallery, New York

Source: Brice Marden: Recent Paintings and Drawings : [catalogue of an Exhibition], September 23-21 October 1978, The Pace Gallery, New York