Sam Francis Quotes

• Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

  Sam Francis

  Space, Painting, Containment

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• Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

  Sam Francis

  Dark, Light, Color

  Galerie Smith-Anderson, Sam Francis (1975*). “Sam Francis: black and white lithographs, 1963-1975”

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• The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

  Sam Francis

  Artist, Inevitable, Tragic

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• An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

  Sam Francis

  Light, Giving, Darkness

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• Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.

  Sam Francis

  Real, Latin, Blood

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