Jack Levine Quotes

• 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 Levine

  Disappointment, Race, Opposites

  Kenneth Wade Prescott, Jack Levine (1978). “Jack Levine: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings, Drawings, Graphics”

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• Impulses are hard to come by these days.

  Jack Levine

  These Days, Impulse, Hard

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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.

  Jack Levine

  Goal, Tradition, Up To Date

  "Conversations With Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.

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• I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

  Jack Levine

  Wish, Paint, Painter

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• As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

  Jack Levine

  Mean, Men, Want

  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.

  Jack Levine

  Dog, Littles, Way

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• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  Jack Levine

  Art, Museums, Directors

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• Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

  Jack Levine

  Different, Quiet, Painting

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• I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

  Jack Levine

  Men, Concerned, Conditions

  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 Levine

  Character, Independent, Artist

  Jack Levine, Milton Wolf Brown (1989). “Jack Levine”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

  Jack Levine

  Eyebrows, Communism

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• I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

  Jack Levine

  Hands, Trying, Enough

  Jack Levine, Milton Wolf Brown (1989). “Jack Levine”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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