Jack Levine Quotes

#1. Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

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#2. I'm an outsider.

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#3. Impulses are hard to come by these days.

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#4. I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.

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#5. I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

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#6. Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

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#7. This acting was very hard work.

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#8. The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

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#9. My goal ... not to go back to Rembrandt ... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

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#10. I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

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#11. As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

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#12. I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

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#13. Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.

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#14. Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

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#15. It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

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