Frank Jeffrey Edson Smart, AO (26 July 1921 – 20 June 2013) was an expatriate Australian painter known for his precisionist depictions of urban landscapes that are "full of private jokes and playful allusions".
I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract.
Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.
I like living in the 20th century. . . to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.
I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.
Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me. . . a shape, a combination of shapes, a play of light or shadows and I send up a prayer because I know I have the germ of a picture.
Everybody gets inspired. We all have these moments. It just depends on whether you've got the ability to seize it.
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