Andrew Forge Quotes

United Kingdom, Painter
November 10, 1923 – September, 4, 2002.

Andrew Murray Forge was an English painter, academic, and art critic. After Leighton Park School, Forge studied art at the Camberwell School of Art in London, England, under William Coldstream and Victor Pasmore in the 1940s.

Also known as Art Critic

I'm trying to do something that is real. What I mean is this; my sense of being in the world starts with a physical relationship with my surroundings, their weight, texture, density, transparency, and so forth.

Andrew Forge
- Real
- Trying
- Relationship
My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.

Andrew Forge
- Painting
- Ambition
- Alive

The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.

Andrew Forge
- Paint
- Skin
- Line