John Marin Quotes

• Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

  John Marin

  Giving, Chance, Paint

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

  John Marin

  Golf, Painting, Strokes

  "John Marin Memorial Exhibition".

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• How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.

  John Marin

  Waiting, Firsts, Bows

  John Marin, Nannette Vicars Maciejunes, Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1991). “Trees as Seen Through the Eyes of John Marin and Charles Burchfield: May 1991”

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• Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

  John Marin

  Art, Greatness, Wonderful

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?

  John Marin

  Flower, Bully, Littles

  John Marin (1949). “Selected Writings”

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• Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

  John Marin

  Giving, Chance, Paint

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

  John Marin

  Art, Revelations, Revealing

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

  John Marin

  Art, Animal, Trying

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos why not call it the consummate science — which gets its perfection from seeming imperfection.

  John Marin

  Art, Perfection, Why Not

  "John Marin".

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• I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.

  John Marin

  Sides, Finishing, Boat

  John Marin (1949). “Selected Writings”

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• Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

  John Marin

  Beautiful, Giving, Sound

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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