Painting is created from within and we must begin from within if we are to understand it. - Patrick Swift

Its purpose is moral, that is, the evaluation of experience; in the deepest sense, the development of taste.

I think that I probably have a real talent for painting trees if I developed it assiduously. I want to give them great density and depth pile heaps of detail into them and yet keep the sense of presence which is the whole point.

One who opens his eyes and sees. To be good at seeing. How difficult not to see anything but the visible. And nothing will be left but dust and manure. Attempting the impossible. Approach the mystery.