Augustus John quotes

Augustus John quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.”
-- Augustus John

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“The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.”
-- Augustus John

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“Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.”
“Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 13, 2013
“Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.”
“It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.”
“Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.”
“Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.”
“I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.”

Source : Alexej von Jawlensky, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen (1994). “Alexej von Jawlensky: 25/9-27/11/1994, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam”, Univ of Washington Pr
“the company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.”
“Everyone shares the same fate.”

Source : Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.38, Vintage
“Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.”

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