George Bellows quotes
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“The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.”
-- George BellowsSource : George Bellows, Catherine Anne Green (1981). “George Bellows, Works from the Permanent Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, August 7-September 7, 1981”
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“The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.”
-- George BellowsSource : Marjorie B. Searl, George Bellows, Ronald Netsky, University of Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery (2003). “Leaving for the country: George Bellows at Woodstock”, Memorial Art Gallery of Univ
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“Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.”
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“Try everything that can be done.... Learn your own possibilities.”
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“Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.”
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“I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point.”
-- George Bellows
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“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
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“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
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“If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"
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