Patrick Swift Quotes

#1. Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.

Patrick Swift

#2. Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

Patrick Swift

#3. The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

Patrick Swift

#4. I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension is the only word for it - can be painted.

Patrick Swift

#5. All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

Patrick Swift

#6. The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

Patrick Swift