My paintings are born not made

What's your statement? What's your objective? What do you have to say?

The people I paint don’t exist. The only thing that is real is the painting. It’s not like a photograph where there’s another reality that existed at a certain moment in time in the past. The image is only happening right now and this is the only version of it. To me, that’s fascinating. It’s an eternal moment.
--John Currin

Do i have a speech behind my paints? No. I don't want to change the world or people's perception about it. I paint because i enjoy doing it, i let my hand freely slide through the canvas dirty with watercolor and charcoal and for me that is when i reach my extasis; when the figure is being modeled. From my theatre classes to my real performance in life i've always enjoyed the improvisation most of all. So no, i don't have anything to say before my figure's existence; my unconscious is the one willing to express itself using my hand as the physical extension and letting me know after what i've just created on the media.

-- Naomi Preizler

Art is not pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into felling.

--Tolstoi

The important thing about doing my art is that I also live...and the more I bring into myself the more I have a desire and need to translate it into something.

-- Raymond Saunders

The human figure is rhythm come to life, capturing that rhythm is one of life's great joys.

-- Charles Swenson

MY PAINTINGS ARE BORN, NOT MADE

Some highlight paints captured on the street: