Frank Jeffrey Edson Smart, AO (26 July 1921 – 20 June 2013) was an expatriate Australian painter known for his precisionist depictions of urban landscapes that are "full of private jokes and playful allusions".
Everybody gets inspired. We all have these moments. It just depends on whether you've got the ability to seize it.
I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract.
I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.
I like living in the 20th century. . . to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.
Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.
Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me. . . a shape, a combination of shapes, a play of light or shadows and I send up a prayer because I know I have the germ of a picture.
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