Euan Uglow Quotes

• I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

  Euan Uglow

  Art, Ideas, Trying

  Catherine Lampert, Richard Kendall, Euan Uglow (2007). “Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné”, p.38, Yale University Press

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• I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark.

  Euan Uglow

  Brain, Want, Mark

  Catherine Lampert, Richard Kendall, Euan Uglow (2007). “Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné”, p.52, Yale University Press

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• I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.

  Euan Uglow

  Trying, Doe, Looks

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• I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you would call straight abstract paintings. And anyway it is so much more exciting trying to find out about the three dimensions of color and sticking it down on a two dimensional surface.

  Euan Uglow

  Color, Two, Trying

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