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John Marin - From the Art category:
Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic – all wild animals walk the same way. (John Marin)
John Marin - From the Art category:
Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness – then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created. (John Marin)
John Marin - From the Beginning category:
Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance. (John Marin)
John Marin - From the Finishing category:
I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat. (John Marin)
John Marin - From the Meaning category:
Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings – there's the Daisy – you don't rave over or read messages into it – you just look at that bully little flower – isn't that enough? (John Marin)
John Marin - From the Mediums category:
Give the instruments a chance – their sounds are quite beautiful. (John Marin)
John Marin - From the Painting category:
Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint. (John Marin)
John Marin - From the Painting category:
Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture. (John Marin)
John Marin - From the Painting category:
How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape. (John Marin)
John Marin - From the Revelation category:
A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing. (John Marin)
John Marin - From the Seeing category:
What a life, seeing! (John Marin)
John Marin - From the Symbols category:
These symbols of his own creation... give him a greater pleasure than the object seen. He reforms them, he rearranges them, he focuses them to his own inner seeings and longings. (John Marin)
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