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The Journal of David Skvor

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#40

August 17th, 2011 · No Comments

dscf9003.jpg” I suppose I am a figurative painter. But sometimes I paint mother nature.” Skvor 17/8/11

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#39

May 15th, 2011 · No Comments

“Art is a relay race starting back at the begining of time. If you are given the honour of holding the baton you run, run and run until someone else comes along and gently takes the baton out of your hand, and he runs. Art wins the race. ” Skvor 15/5/2011

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#38

May 1st, 2011 · No Comments

thumb_dscf13801.jpg“Have you ever noticed how the lead from a pencil goes on as smooth as silk. This is how you must draw.” Skvor 29/4/2011

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#37

March 10th, 2011 · No Comments

dscf13821.jpg“You can push a line so far and then it breaks. It must be able to bounce back at you and come back into your hand like horse reins.” Skvor 8/3/11

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#36

February 13th, 2011 · No Comments

thumb_dscf13921.jpg“When a great artist dies they gather up his words like dew on  leaves. Every last drop.” Skvor 13/2/11

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#35

February 13th, 2011 · No Comments

thumb_dscf20731.jpg“It seems that children sculpt and adults paint. If you sculpt something new out there or outrageous people say what great imagination. Rather like a child. If you do the same with paint on canvas people want to analize the artist’s mind and innermost being to find out what is going on inside the man.” Skvor 13/2/11

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#34

January 26th, 2011 · No Comments

rubys-box-008.jpg‘The reason artists find it so hard to get their work accepted is because they challenge the very value system which judges them. Once their work has been accepted by the system the paradigms change again.’ Skvor 26/1/11

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#33

January 16th, 2011 · No Comments

golly-004.jpg” Fashions sell so well. There is nothing you can’t buy. But try and sell it!  Emptiness destined for the cupboard.” Skvor 3/1/11

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#32

December 7th, 2010 · No Comments

The revelation of Jesus Christ (American Pie the apocalypse)“My paintings have not been squeezed out of my soul like paint from a tube. They come from somewhere else naturally.” Skvor 30/10/10

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#31

October 27th, 2010 · No Comments

dscf6304.JPG‘Every time you drive in the country you seem to see an appaloosa horse in a paddock alone.” Skvor 27/10/10

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