Larry Rivers Quotes

• Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

  Larry Rivers

  Jealousy, Littles, Boring

  Larry Rivers, Marlborough Gallery (2005). “Larry Rivers: paintings and drawings: 1951-2001 ; May 3-June 4, 2005”, Marlborough Gallery

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• I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

  Larry Rivers

  Art, Believe, Mood

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• One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.

  Larry Rivers

  Queens, Night, Tunnels

  Larry Rivers, Carol Brightman (1979). “Drawings and digressions”, Clarkson Potter

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• I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

  Larry Rivers

  Artist, Ideas, Being An Artist

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• I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.

  Larry Rivers

  Remembers Everything, Superficial Things, Knows

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• I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.

  Larry Rivers

  Seven Months, People, Black

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