Stefan Szczesny Quotes

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What is the secret behind the emotional effect of great works of painting? What laws govern their beauty? Delacroix said that being a feast for the eyes is the prime merit of a good painting. I seek the timeless, the quintessential in painting.

Stefan Szczesny
A painting grows like a plant. Use all colours, all shapes. Everything that attracts and excites me is a part of me. Painting is about proportions, relationships which breathe life. "Painting is a harmony which runs parallel to nature".

Stefan Szczesny
The power of memory - magic- myth - abstract beauty. I paint pictures that have never been seen before. Visions of another world. At once sensuous and intellectual.

Stefan Szczesny
As a means of expression, painting must deliver universally valid statements, make allegorical reflections on life, and create new mythologies.

Stefan Szczesny
Paintings are complex puzzles in the twilight world between abstraction and figuration. I use the medium in a simple, unsophisticated way to express what I don't see expressed anywhere else.

Stefan Szczesny
Light, colour, love - let me come under your spell. Life can be represented only by a lively kind of painting. There is clarity in passion.

Stefan Szczesny
Everything is love. "HEAVEN ON EARTH" our idea of heaven has been formed by painting and nothing else. I love pure, bright colours, their intellectual clarity of expression conveying nothing but feeling. Painting - the inspired animation of the surface.

Stefan Szczesny