Jack Levine quotes
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“The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.”
-- Jack LevineSource : Kenneth Wade Prescott, Jack Levine (1978). “Jack Levine: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings, Drawings, Graphics”
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“My goal ... not to go back to Rembrandt ... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.”
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“I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.”
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“As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.”
-- Jack LevineSource : Jack Levine, Milton Wolf Brown (1989). “Jack Levine”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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“I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way-under the hoop.”
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“It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.”
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“Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.”
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“I am primarily concerned with the condition of man,”
-- Jack LevineSource : Kenneth Wade Prescott, Jack Levine (1978). “Jack Levine: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings, Drawings, Graphics”
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“Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.”
-- Jack LevineSource : Jack Levine, Milton Wolf Brown (1989). “Jack Levine”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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“Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.”
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“I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?”
-- Jack LevineSource : Jack Levine, Milton Wolf Brown (1989). “Jack Levine”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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