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.

For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is the odd, the personal, the curious, the simply honest, that at this moment, when everyone looks to the extreme and flamboyant, constitutes the most interesting manifestation of the spirit of art.

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