Douglas Portway Quotes

• When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever - he either finds what he is looking for or dismisses the work as irrelevant. He has deprived himself of the possibility of any fresh experience or revelation by looking only for confirmation of that which he already 'knows.

  Douglas Portway

  Political, Historical, Intellectual

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• Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the object and its own life , through the spectator, with his expectations, interpretations, back into life.

  Douglas Portway

  Artist, Expectations, Flow

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• I want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside.

  Douglas Portway

  Light, Want, Painting

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• Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is more than the sum of those parts, which could not exist in any other form, and which cannot be caught, or held, or contained.

  Douglas Portway

  Art, Taken, Quality

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• Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

  Douglas Portway

  Art, Facts, Possibility

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• There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

  Douglas Portway

  Hands, Mind, Landscape

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• Creo que una de las propiedades más importantes de una obra de arte es el intento de reconciliar los opuestos, y en su fusión lograr una "totalidad" o "unidad", cuya experiencia debería ser reveladora -tanto para el artista como para el espectador-, algo parecido a la experiencia de la iluminación en términos de religión.

  Douglas Portway

  Arte, Creer, Opuestos

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• Mis cuadros deberían convertirse en objetos en los que uno pudiera flotar, como en el agua, de modo que su mente quedara colgada... suspendida, y la emanación del cuadro penetrara en la conciencia de la gente.

  Douglas Portway

  Space, Water, People

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