Top 6 A. Y. Jackson Quotes
#1. To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
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#3. What to paint was a problem for the war artist ... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever ... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.
A. Y. Jackson
#4. The obedient in art are always the forgotten ... The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas ... Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
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#5. Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
A. Y. Jackson
#6. Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
A. Y. Jackson
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