Edward Betts Quotes

The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.

Edward Betts

• Painting
• Compulsion
• Involvement
• Obsessions

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• The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.

  

  Edward Betts
  • Painting
  • Compulsion
  • Involvement