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"Embedded in memory, Colville's images will shape how you see the world, how you'll interpret minor encounters and everyday moments. You will see the extraordinary in the ordinary and the setting or event need not be remarkable in itself to court the exceptional."  

 

- Andrew Hunter

"Sheppard luxuriated in the stuff with which he made paintings. The oils are brushed on in ways that take full advantage of their subtle viscosity to suggest the movements, rhythms, and textures of the components of his subject matter." 

 

- Tom Smart

"The essential element in my last paintings is the person. The landscape is his setting. If you could have a world without human beings, the landscape would be the same. But the presence of man changes everything. It is the place of the human within the universe that matters. The person finds his footing, finds himself, in the landscape." 

 

- Jean Paul Lemieux

"The clean shape started gradually in 1964 from the simplification that was already present in the murals. At that time, I had started doing a series of black and white wedges, the wedge that became more and more arrows. Then at one moment I made lots of lines near the arrow that create a feeling of vibration, that must vibrate into space, the eternal space... that vibration of space that moves...these arrows are moving through space. I wanted, by the speed of it, to create vibration around." 

 

- Rita Letendre

"The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him...he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion." 

 

- David Milne