Milton Avery quotes
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“Why talk when you can paint?”
-- Milton AverySource : Milton Avery, National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.), Brooklyn Museum, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (1969). “Milton Avery”
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“The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.”
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“Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.”
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“I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.”
-- Milton AverySource : Milton Avery, Ruth Fine, M. Knoedler & Co (2007). “Magical means: Milton Avery and watercolor”
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“Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.”
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“Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.”
-- Milton AverySource : Milton Avery (1973). “Milton Avery drawings”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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Source : Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”
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“Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?”
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