A Light in the Dark: The Art and Life of Frank Mason is a documentary on painter Frank Mason by Walter Scott Mason and Sonny Quinn.
“Everybody, every human being, every squirrel and every elephant needs to create. We’re not going to stop anybody from creating. One of the great things about the Art Students League is that people can come and create. Creating is healing. But not everybody is a great artist.” —Audrey Flack
“There is a pleasure principle in all art, OK? For me that must include something else which is incredibly important, which is what I talked about before—that human element.” —Burton Silverman
Ira Goldberg: You mentioned to me that you attended Robert Beverly Hale’s anatomy lectures. What year was that? Paul Resika: It was when I came back from Europe in 1954. It was much too late for me to be learning anatomy. How long were you in Europe? I was in Paris in 1950. Around Christmas time…
“If I had any flair and ability as an artist, it lay with interpreting people, whether the cowboy or the pretty girl. I called it “cowboys and cleavage.” —Everett Raymond Kinstler