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… - Patrick Swift

In so far as it is concerned with truth that goes beyond appearance and form, art is transcendental. The consciousness of this is often a snare for the painter who is led by a false preoccupation with some literary or intellectual conception of reality into a time-conscious literary form. Nano Reid realised with the instinct of a painter that for her the whole truth existed in the head, the body, the structure of life: it lay there revealed in the form, the line, a timeless and profound reality.

You may know a good painter by his habit of work: a good painter works constantly.

No real painter ever wants be known through any other medium than his painting.