John Marin Quotes

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  • A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

    John Marin (1970). “John Marin”
  • Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

    Giving   Chance   Paint  
    John Marin (1970). “John Marin”
  • Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

    Giving   Chance   Paint  
    John Marin (1970). “John Marin”
  • 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?

    Flower   Bully   Littles  
    John Marin (1949). “Selected Writings”
  • 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 (1970). “John Marin”
  • Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos why not call it the consummate science — which gets its perfection from seeming imperfection.

    "John Marin".
  • 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.

    Waiting   Firsts   Bows  
    John Marin, Nannette Vicars Maciejunes, Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1991). “Trees as Seen Through the Eyes of John Marin and Charles Burchfield: May 1991”
  • 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.

    Art   Animal   Trying  
    John Marin (1970). “John Marin”
  • 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.

    Sides   Finishing   Boat  
    John Marin (1949). “Selected Writings”
  • Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

    John Marin (1970). “John Marin”
  • Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

    Golf   Painting   Strokes  
    "John Marin Memorial Exhibition".
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