"Painting is not conceptual art. When someone looks at my painting and asks me "What did you want to say?" I find myself in a difficult position. That is, I’ve already said what I wanted to say through the medium of painting, using color, rhythm and so on… to demand that I translate the language of art into the language of words is impossible, to say the least. I am an artist, not a writer, my materials are oil, ink, pencils and so on, not words."
― Temo Svirely
