Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Squeak Carnwath

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Squeak Carnwath is a contemporary American painter and arts educator. She is a Professor Emerita of Art at University of California, Berkeley.

Born: May 24, 1947

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It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to produce a human document.

Squeak Carnwath

I want painting to be my flashlight.

Squeak Carnwath

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.

Squeak Carnwath

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.

Squeak Carnwath

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.

Squeak Carnwath

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.

Squeak Carnwath

Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.

Squeak Carnwath

Painting is an investigation of being.

Squeak Carnwath

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Squeak Carnwath

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