Quotes from Burton Silverman

I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.

Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.

I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.

I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.

I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.