Keith Crown Quotes

• Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

  Keith Crown

  Color, Lovely, Privilege

  Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

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• A red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't.

  Keith Crown

  Blue, Sky, Yellow

  Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

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• Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?

  Keith Crown

  Sight, Vision, Looks

  Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

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• Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.

  Keith Crown

  Color, Colour

  Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

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• My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.

  Keith Crown

  Order, Ideas, Two

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• I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.

  Keith Crown

  Intensity, Subjects

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