Oskar Brůža, Secretary of Union of The Valtice symposium does not belong among those which are funded with a lot of money. Its main aim is not to offer comfort or socializing, the goal is to enable the artists a free, independent monumental painting…

Václav Mílek, theorist
Many times I have faced complaints about the fact that symposia are held by various villages, towns or cities just to get works of art to represent the place for free. I will leave aside legitimacy or moral value of such complaints. I do believe that it is apparent there are differences among symposia not only in the material used there, the aim or organization but also at the basic level meaning to understand the word symposium. Beside those, that are satisfied with the only aim to get a work of art, there are symposia linked with solving more or less real problems. It can be space, art heritage of some personality, but also purely theoretical topics. The latter group is represented by the international symposium Large Format Valtice…

Jan Pospíšil
In 2003, I and Josef Fantura , the head of the Fine Art Gallery in the town of Hodonín, started a digital documentation of symposia results. This cooperation goes on and is importnat not only for the documentation itself but also for future use of the whole collection.