Milton Avery Quotes

• Why talk when you can paint?

  Milton Avery

  Art, Paint

  Milton Avery, National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.), Brooklyn Museum, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (1969). “Milton Avery”

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• Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

  Milton Avery

  Art, Made, Turns

  Milton Avery (1973). “Milton Avery drawings”

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• I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.

  Milton Avery

  Independent, Unique, Impact

  Milton Avery, Ruth Fine, M. Knoedler & Co (2007). “Magical means: Milton Avery and watercolor”

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• Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

  Milton Avery

  Nature, Drama, Wind Blowing

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• Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.

  Milton Avery

  Painting

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• The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

  Milton Avery

  Ideas

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