Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials. … - Douglas Portway

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Douglas Portway

Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials. . . the concreteness of the object and its own life , through the spectator, with his expectations, interpretations, back into life.

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I want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside.

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Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is more than the sum of those parts, which could not exist in any other form, and which cannot be caught, or held, or contained.

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Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

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There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

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I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in their fusion to achieve a 'wholeness' or 'oneness,' the experiencing of which should be revelatory - both for the artist and the spectator - something akin to the experience of enlightenment in terms of religion.

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