All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity... The eroticism of Ca… - Patrick Swift

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

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

For even the painter himself cannot be fully aware of the way in which the picture gets made: there is a wide area of the unpredictable in the act of pushing paint about in the definition of an image.

Nano Reid does not begin a portrait with any ideas about the person she draws. She is concerned with the head, its existence as a structure with certain characteristics. She is so much concerned with this that her portraits are inevitably deep studies of character and personality. The head, the face, the lines and features, contain everything for the painter who understands well enough to put it down.