Grant Wood Quotes

• All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

  Grant Wood

  Ideas, Cows, Incubation

  Thomas Hoving, Grant Wood (2005). “American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece”, Chamberlain Brothers

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• Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artist’s experience that are the first importance in art.

  Grant Wood

  Beauty, Art, Reality

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• I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

  Grant Wood

  Iowa, Appreciate, France

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• Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.

  Grant Wood

  Boys, Triumph, Riding

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• You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

  Grant Wood

  Wine, Beer, Fish Tanks

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